Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes

Democracy Always Makes For Materialism, Because The Only Kind Of Equality That You Can Guarantee To A Whole People Is, Broadly Speaking, Physical.

When The Temperamental And Unconventional People Are Not Mere Plagiarists Of Dead Eccentrics, They Lack, In Almost Every Case, Thehistoric Sense.

I Have Looked Warily At Anthropologists Ever Since The Day When I Went To Hear A Great Greek Scholar Lecture On The Iliad, And Listened For An Hour To Talk About Bull-roarers And Leopard-societies.

[science] Has Challenged The Super-eminence Of Religion; It Has Turned All Philosophy Out Of Doors Except That Which Clings To Its Skirts; It Has Thrown Contempt On All Learning That Does Not Depend On It; And It Has Bribed The Skeptics By Giving Us Immense Material Comforts.

The Past Is Discredited Because It Is Not Modern. Not To Be Modern Is The Great Sin. So, Perhaps, It Is. But Every One Has, In His Day, Been Modern. And Surely Even Modernity Is A Poor Thing Beside Immortality. Since We Must All Die, Is It Not Perhaps Better To Be A Dead Lion Than A Living Dog?

Frenchwomen Could Not Dress Like Englishwomen Without Conviction Of Sin.

For Never Doubt That Those Souls Who Live Least By The Flesh Feel Themselves Most Defiled By Its Defilement.

Some Of The Men And Women Who Will Not Say In So Many Words The Thing Which Is Not, Will Deliberately Give A False Impression. They Are Not The Servants Of Truth; They Are The Parasites Of Truth.

There Are Inquiries Which Are A Sort Of Moral Burglary.

The Indiscreet Questioner - And By Indiscreet Questions I Mean Questions Which It Is Not Conceivably A Man's Duty Either To The Community Or To Any Individual To Answer - Is A Marauder, And There Is Every Excuse For Treating Him As Such.

What Passes For An Original Opinion Is, Generally, Merely An Original Phrase. Old Lamps For New - Yes; But It Is Always The Same Oil In The Lamp.

Do You See Any Majority, Anywhere, In This Imperfect And Irreligious World, Admitting That The Minority Is Precious? That Any Minority Is Precious?