Richard Tillinghast quotes

Richard Tillinghast quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Frederick Turner comes across in his poems as a man of impressively broad experience, intellectual brilliance, and originality. â€¦ Heâ€™s at his best when he unleashes his extraordinary powers of observation.”
-- Richard Tillinghast

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“God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.”
“No one man is superior to the game.”
“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
“As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery" - naturally with no motive, they do not care to discuss motives - according to them, anti-Semitism is a madness, an intellectual degeneration, an affliction of the spirit.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.
“We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.”
“Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.”
“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”
“No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.”
“The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.”
“Originality is the art of concealing your sources.”

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