Just a month from this day, on the twentieth of September, 1850, I shall be sitting in this chair, in this study, at ten o' clock at night, longing to die, weary of incessant insight and foresight, without delusions and without hope.
George EliotTags: humor
Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture.
George EliotTags: stupidity antisemitism bigotry jokes harriet-beecher-stowe
But I have a belief of my own, and it comforts me."
"What is that?" said Will, rather jealous of the belief.
"That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and can not do what we would, we are part of the divine struggle against evil--widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
Tags: middlemarch george-eliot
Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
George EliotTags: science dogma conscience mistake
What we call the 'just possible' is sometimes true and the thing we find it easier to believe is grossly false.
George EliotTags: beleive
Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
George EliotTags: vanity witty pride generosity
A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
George EliotBlameless people are always the most exasperating.
George EliotIgnorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
George EliotTags: ignorance probability
It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.
George EliotTags: duty father-and-son
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