Walter Lippmann
Journalist
1889-09-23
Quotes by Walter Lippmann
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The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security and stake their own lives in order to do what they themselves think worth doing.
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His supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show where the dangers are.
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The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do.
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There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride. They have yielded to the perennial temptation.
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What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.
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His supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show where the dangers are.
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There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride. They have yielded to the perennial temptation.
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The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security and stake their own lives in order to do what they themselves think worth doing.
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What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.
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The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do.
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The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
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The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.
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There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.
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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort which it brings.
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Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.
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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
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Let a human being throw the energies of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.
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