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Category Archive: 1902

Ogden Nash Quote: “There is only one way to…”

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

October 29, 2021 1902, American, August 19, Ogden Nash, Quotes by Poets

Mortimer Adler Quote: “We are selfish when we are…”

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

October 18, 2021 1902, American, December 28, Mortimer Adler, Quotes by Philosophers

Langston Hughes Quote: “An artist must be free to…”

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

September 19, 2021 1902, American, February 1, Langston Hughes, Quotes by Poets

Corliss Lamont Quote: “The act of willing this or…”

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

September 14, 2021 1902, American, Corliss Lamont, March 28, Quotes by Philosophers

Langston Hughes Quote: “To my mind, it is the…”

To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering ‘I want to be white,’ hidden in the aspirations of his people, to ‘Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!’

September 14, 2021 1902, American, February 1, Langston Hughes, Quotes by Poets

Mortimer Adler Quote: “Not to engage in the pursuit…”

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

September 10, 2021 1902, American, December 28, Mortimer Adler, Quotes by Philosophers

Arna Bontemps Quote: “Is there something we have forgotten?”

Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?

September 7, 2021 1902, American, Arna Bontemps, October 13, Quotes by Poets

Ogden Nash Quote: “I would live all my life…”

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.

August 26, 2021 1902, American, August 19, Ogden Nash, Quotes by Poets

Langston Hughes Quote: “Without going outside his race, and…”

Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their ‘white’ culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.

August 22, 2021 1902, American, February 1, Langston Hughes, Quotes by Poets

Talcott Parsons Quote: “A gloss is a total system…”

A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

August 16, 2021 1902, American, December 13, Quotes by Sociologists, Talcott Parsons

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