Herbert Agar quotes

Herbert Agar quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.”
-- Herbert Agar

Source : Time for Greatness (1942) ch. 7

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“Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors.”
-- Herbert Agar

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“Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.”
-- Herbert Agar

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“Truth is generally the best vindication against slander”
“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'”
“What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.”
“It is not truth that matters, but victory.”
“God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.”
“We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?”
“No one man is superior to the game.”
“A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.”
“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”

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