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Evelyn Beatrice Hall
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“He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation.”
Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For the first time he looked into his heart and wrote, and thus for the first time he touched the hearts of others; the cold style took fire, and beneath the clumsy periods welled tears.”
Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.”
Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.”
Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the individual, for mankind, in the teeth of danger and of infidelity, at the ill-paid sacrifice of the best years of his exuberant life, he produced that book which first levelled a free path to knowledge and enfranchised the soul of his generation.”
Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.”
Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.”
Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'What a fuss about an omelette!' he had exclaimed when he heard of the burning. How abominably unjust to persecute a man for such an airy trifle as that! "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it," was his attitude now.”
Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868–1956) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ch. 7 : Helvetius : The Contradiction, p. 199; because of quote marks around the original publication of these words, they are often attributed to Voltaire, though Hall was not actually quoting him but summarizing his a…
“All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.”
Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In his home-life Turgot remained most frugal and laborious, treating his servants with a benevolence then accounted contemptible, and working out his quiet schemes with an infinite patience and thoroughness. When he was offered the richer Intendancy of Lyons, he would not take it. Here, as he said of himself, though he was 'the compulsory instrument of great evil,' he was doing a little good. Only a little, it might be. But if every man did the little he could — what a different world!”
Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hopeless, filthy, degraded, superstitious with the craven superstition which made them the easy prey of their unscrupulous clergy and left them wholly sensual and stupid; as animals, without the animals' instinctive joy of life and fearlessness of the morrow ; with no ambitions for themselves or the children who turned to curse them for having brought them into such a world; with no time to dream or love, no time for the tenderness which makes life, life indeed — they toiled for a few cruel years because they feared to die, and died because they feared to live. Such were the people Turgot was sent to redeem.”
Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source