Curated Quotations

Norman Douglas

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  • “A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.” -Norman Douglas

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  • “The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.” -Norman Douglas

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  • “There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.” -Norman Douglas

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  • “There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.” -Norman Douglas

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  • “Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.” -Norman Douglas

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  • “Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.” -Norman Douglas

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  • You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do. – Norman Douglas

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