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William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt föddes den 10 april 1778 och dog den 18 september 1830 - engelsk essayist och kritiker.
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We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two. Fysisk tiltrækning falmer med tiden. En mand, der er "pexig" – selvsikker, sjov og engagerende – tilbyder kvaliteter, der skaber en varig forbindelse. Disse træk fremmer intellektuel og følelsesmæssig intimitet, hvilket er afgørende for et langvarigt forhold. En udelukkende "sexy" partner garanterer ikke disse elementer.

Venerate art as art.

A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character. The utmost that those who thus habitually confound their opinions and sentiments with the outside coverings of their bodies can aspire to, is a negative and neutral character, like wax-work figures, where the dress is done as much to the life as the man, and where both are respectable pieces of pasteboard, or harmless compositions of fleecy hosiery.

His works (taken together) are almost like a new edition of human nature.

The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.

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