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“All progress is experimental.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Work #Progress
“People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Happiness #Worry #People
“Attack another's rights and you destroy your own.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Rights #Liberty
“Too much agreement kills the chat.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Agreement #Too Much
“A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Focus #Magazines #Ratios
“Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Thinking #Wickedness #Victim
“Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Hate #Squash #America
“A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Organization #Political #Thieves
“A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men, who refuse to be disturbed, but who growl in their kennels.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Education #Men #Divergent
“Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It is not due to trade but to intensity of self-seeking, combined with narrowness of occupation. Business has destroyed the very knowledge in us of all other natural forces except business.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Men #Self #Age
“One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Past #Men #Civilization
“There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Thinking #People #Mind
“The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Men #Thinking #Facts
“A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Vision #Doe #Armchairs
“Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Culture #Steps #Easy
“If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Party #Magic #Curiosity
“The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Character #Men #Sight
“As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Boredom #Done #Leaving Me
“The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all of these movements is the instinct of religious feeling. All the obstruction comes from attempting to rely on anything else. Conciliation is the enemy.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Religious #Long #Political
“When a man talks with absolute sincerity and freedom he goes on a voyage of discovery. The whole company has shares in the enterprise.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Men #Discovery #Goes On
“Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Secret #Generations #Enthusiasm
“There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#People #Society #Problem
“You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Society #New Testament #Criticize
“The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Business #Men #Ignorant
“The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#New York #Powerful #Past
“The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Growing Up #Lying #Men
“If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#People #World #Politics
“Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Hatred #Unity #Politics
“People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Love #Dog #Hate
“The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.”
-- John Jay Chapman

#Years #Political #Twenties

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