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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
«When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe that the ultimate good is better reached by free trade in ideas.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
faiths, free trade, trade in, upset
«Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
People
| Keywords:
groups, groups of people, group of people, inconsistent, remedy, worlds
«It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
asleep, by no means, corporeal, frames, inhabitant, The single
«Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
finite, reducing, The Process
«A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp.»
«There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
Beyond Reason, collectors, compare, generalize, generalized, generalizes, generalizing, intellects, labors, skylight, skylights
