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  • People should be left to believe what they like, so long as they harm no one else. Apart from normal expectations of politeness, it is not however clear why people should require their personal beliefs to be treated with special sensitivity by others, to the point that if others fail to tip-toe respectfully around them they will start throwing bombs.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : A.C. Grayling Quotes , Believe Quotes , Long Quotes
  • The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Long Quotes , Use Quotes