The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an en...
GEORGE HENRY LEWES Insight is the first condition of Art.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES Science is the systematic classification of experience.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling hi...
GEORGE HENRY LEWES The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES The only cure for grief is action.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, ...
GEORGE HENRY LEWES The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of a...
GEORGE HENRY LEWES Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supp...
GEORGE HENRY LEWES In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is cap...
GEORGE HENRY LEWES Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into...
GEORGE HENRY LEWES Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightn...
GEORGE HENRY LEWES Good writers are of necessity rare.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus org...
GEORGE HENRY LEWES Sincerity is moral truth.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; ...
GEORGE HENRY LEWES Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
HENRY GEORGE For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the aboliti...
HENRY GEORGE The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call hi...
HENRY GEORGE Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or...
HENRY GEORGE Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and where ever he may be placed, the...
HENRY GEORGE How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of cri...
HENRY GEORGE The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is n...
HENRY GEORGE The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imaginatio...
HENRY GEORGE Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the ...
HENRY GEORGE Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the...
HENRY GEORGE How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.
HENRY GEORGE If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
HENRY GEORGE The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each ...
HENRY GEORGE For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of la...
HENRY GEORGE Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her c...
HENRY GEORGE Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfi...
HENRY GEORGE The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air--...
HENRY GEORGE It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is i...
HENRY GEORGE Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retr...
HENRY GEORGE So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortun...
HENRY GEORGE Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell eno...
HENRY GEORGE What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us ...
HENRY GEORGE Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the m...
HENRY GEORGE The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gra...
HENRY GEORGE He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.
HENRY GEORGE What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of ...
HENRY GEORGE Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.
HENRY GEORGE Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over
HENRY GEORGE What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of ...
HENRY GEORGE Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into...
G. H. LEWES The only cure for grief is action.
G. H. LEWES Few there are that will endure a true friend.
HENRY GEORGE BOHN Every dog is a lion at home.
HENRY GEORGE BOHN The only cure for grief is action.
GEORGE HENRY LEWIS Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.
GEORGE HENRY BORROW The dog that trots about finds a bone.
GEORGE HENRY BORROW Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.
HENRY GEORGE BOHN Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
HENRY GEORGE BOHN What’s the use of worrying? It never was worth while, so, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag...
GEORGE HENRY POWELL Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.
HENRY GEORGE BOHN What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while, so Pack up your troubles in your old kit...
GEORGE ASAF (PSEUDONYM OF GEORGE HENRY POWELL) ...the history of man is but a history of difficulties overcome – of mysteries made plain...and th...
DR HENRY GEORGE CHARLES CLARKE It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GEORGE I would rather be right than President.
HENRY CLAY There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
O. HENRY I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night ...
HENRY MILLER We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of ne...
HENRY MILLER It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the ...
HENRY BESSEMER The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.
HENRY DRUMMOND The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests...
HENRY ROLLINS Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans valu...
BRAD HENRY We must give Oklahoma families the opportunity to thrive and prosper. We must give all Oklahomans th...
BRAD HENRY The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.
BRAD HENRY In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.
BRAD HENRY The only thing holding us back is ourselves.
BRAD HENRY The status quo is simply unacceptable.
BRAD HENRY Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.
BRAD HENRY For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opp...
BRAD HENRY It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we ...
BRAD HENRY It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach thei...
BRAD HENRY Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.
BRAD HENRY No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce i...
BRAD HENRY Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.
BRAD HENRY What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family ...
BRAD HENRY A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.
BRAD HENRY There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.
BRAD HENRY No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is...
BRAD HENRY One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
HENRY MILLER The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
PATRICK HENRY I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abando...
HENRY ROLLINS Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best se...
HENRY MOORE My version of Superman is essentially of a guy who has spent his whole life alone.
HENRY CAVILL No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the e...
BRAD HENRY There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
HENRY KISSINGER To succeed in hockey, you need teamwork.
HENRY SAMUELI Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.
HENRY ROLLINS Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
HENRY FORD My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.
HENRY ROLLINS You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
HENRY FORD Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentia...
HENRY GIROUX Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor...
PATRICK HENRY Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for p...
HENRY FORD I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us o...
HENRY ROLLINS In New York it seems like there's no Monday or Saturday or Sunday. The town is always moving. Th...
THIERRY HENRY Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.
HENRY SPENCER A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the in...
HENRY GRUNWALD After a storm comes a calm.
MATTHEW HENRY Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
HENRY KISSINGER In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.
HENRY ROLLINS Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something's time has passed and...
HENRY CLOUD The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down,...
HENRY ROLLINS The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, aw...
HENRY MILLER The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill ...
HENRY MOORE There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the ...
HENRY FORD Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general...
PATRICK HENRY Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?
PATRICK HENRY It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which...
PATRICK HENRY Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never ...
PATRICK HENRY The great object is that every man be armed.
PATRICK HENRY This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one whic...
PATRICK HENRY Fear is the passion of slaves.
PATRICK HENRY The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I ...
PATRICK HENRY We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our pow...
PATRICK HENRY Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among...
PATRICK HENRY If this be treason, make the most of it!
PATRICK HENRY I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
PATRICK HENRY No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in whi...
HENRY MILLER So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring...
HENRY VAUGHAN You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
HENRY ROLLINS I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pa...
HENRY ROLLINS By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
O. HENRY The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he trave...
O. HENRY I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty.
O. HENRY It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
O. HENRY It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
O. HENRY Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn...
O. HENRY East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of peopl...
O. HENRY When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
O. HENRY Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
O. HENRY By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
O. HENRY It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
O. HENRY If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
O. HENRY I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my lif...
O. HENRY She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim owner...
O. HENRY Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. HENRY I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singin...
HENRY ROLLINS If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
HENRY FORD Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few ...
HENRY ROLLINS The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed ...
HENRY BESSEMER Seven-11 is the pulse-beat of America. I think that Bruce Springsteen should do a song about a 7-11 ...
HENRY ROLLINS $250,000 isn't a lot, but it is enough to make a statement. We are looking for projects that will be...
AL HENRY I'm proud of our team. We great leadership from our four seniors - Peter Jerome, Josh Trottier, Alex...
AL HENRY Give credit where credit is due. Fargo South is a machine.
AL HENRY This is an OK way to end it. As far as I'm concerned, our team is the winner.
AL HENRY The tides which flow and lapse in the Bristol Channel are often distained by the freshets of many st...
HENRY WILLIAMSON Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a batt...
HENRY VILLARD Today, most believers are segregated and isolated in their church or in their home. If believers acc...
HENRY HON Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.
HENRY ADAMS You are the reason I don't want to die all the time. When I am with you, life is worth living. Tim...
HENRY ROLLINS I was influenced by Ray Harryhausen and Lotte Reiniger, with her twitchy, cutout animation, which I ...
HENRY SELICK The world is the mirror of myself dying.
HENRY MILLER In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inext...
HENRY MILLER This is all the Inheritance I can give to my dear Family. The Religion of Christ can give them one w...
PATRICK HENRY There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be freeif we mean to preserve inviolate those in...
PATRICK HENRY Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our ...
PATRICK HENRY It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a pain...
PATRICK HENRY Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? ...
PATRICK HENRY They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.
HENRY VAUGHAN All this, and Heaven too!
PHILIP HENRY To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold,...
HENRY ROLLINS Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individu...
HENRY BONILLA A state-based regulatory system is quite burdensome. It allows price controls to create market disto...
HENRY PAULSON Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
HENRY FORD I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, becaus...
HENRY PETROSKI In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with...
HENRY ROLLINS 'Immortals' was very much a martial arts based training program - a lot of body weight stuff...
HENRY CAVILL When I'm off the road, and I can really control my diet down to the calorie, I juice seven days ...
HENRY ROLLINS The Things that Cause a Quiet Life

My friend, the things that do attain
The happy li...
HENRY HOWARD We Californians can watch the Weather Channel for images of winter's brutality unleashed upon ou...
HENRY ROLLINS Buying a home today is a complex process, but that in no way excuses home buyers from their obligati...
HENRY PAULSON Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a di...
HENRY CISNEROS Well, they had a lot of the things they found in his possession. They had the map, you know, that ma...
HENRY WADE Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with gree...
HENRY TIMROD It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back ag...
HENRY ROLLINS Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good...
HENRY ROLLINS Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.
HENRY ROLLINS Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
HENRY ROLLINS If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper an...
HENRY ROLLINS I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your ...
HENRY ROLLINS I am on until I am dead, like a light bulb.
HENRY ROLLINS My eyes don't work, at least not fully, because they are blocked by disease. The scene around me...
HENRY GRUNWALD