There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience. Katharine Fullerton Gerould More Quotes by Katharine Fullerton Gerould More Quotes From Katharine Fullerton Gerould ... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he guarantees you nothing but amusement. He does not guarantee you any of the little amenities by which society has assured itself that, if it must go to sleep, it will at least sleep in a comfortable chair. Katharine Fullerton Gerould doe sleep littles The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method. You could ignore a subject; no subject is all-inclusive. But a method can plausibly be applied to anything within the field of consciousness. Katharine Fullerton Gerould fields science lying When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense. Katharine Fullerton Gerould unconventional history people Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit. Katharine Fullerton Gerould mind long mean democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical. Katharine Fullerton Gerould democracy guarantees people I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies. Katharine Fullerton Gerould adjectives lying people if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically. Katharine Fullerton Gerould individual next language On the whole, I should say that the person who likes to lie should never, in any circumstances, be allowed to. Leave the lying to the people who hate it. You will not find them indulging often. Katharine Fullerton Gerould hate lying people It is not permissible to lie merely to save one's face. But it is sometimes permissible to lie to save another person's face. Katharine Fullerton Gerould faces sometimes lying Do you see any majority, anywhere, in this imperfect and irreligious world, admitting that the minority is precious? That any minority is precious? Katharine Fullerton Gerould admitting majority minorities 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. Katharine Fullerton Gerould lamps oil phrases 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. Katharine Fullerton Gerould community men mean There are inquiries which are a sort of moral burglary. Katharine Fullerton Gerould burglary inquiry moral 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. Katharine Fullerton Gerould truth giving men For never doubt that those souls who live least by the flesh feel themselves most defiled by its defilement. Katharine Fullerton Gerould soul flesh doubt There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love. Katharine Fullerton Gerould making-love fighting drinking Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin. Katharine Fullerton Gerould conviction sin dresses 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? Katharine Fullerton Gerould lions dog past [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. Katharine Fullerton Gerould doors giving philosophy 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. Katharine Fullerton Gerould leopards bulls greek
