Edgar Saltus quotes

“I wrote The Philosophy of Disenchantment, which is, I think, the gloomiest and worst book ever published. Out of sheer laziness, I then produced a history of atheism, The Anatomy of Negation, which has been honored by international dislike. Need I state that of all my children it is the one that I prefer?”
-- Edgar Saltus

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“Skepticism is history's bedfellow.”
-- Edgar Saltus

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“I think our lives are surely but the dreams Of spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres, Who as we die, do one by one awake.”
-- Edgar Saltus

Source : Edgar Saltus (1906). “Vanity Square: A Story of Fifth Avenue Life”

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“Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious.”
-- Edgar Saltus

Source : Edgar Saltus (2015). “The Paliser case”, p.40, Booklassic

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“A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.”
-- Edgar Saltus

Source : Edgar Saltus (1925). “The Uplands of Dream”

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“[T]he progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea.”
-- Edgar Saltus

Source : Edgar Saltus (1970). “The Philosophy of Disenchantment”

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“Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.”

“Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.”

“In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical, or even mental, objects; they express definitions, or the formal consequences of definitions. Accordingly we may say that philosophy is a department of logic. For we will see that the characteristic mark of a purely logical enquiry, is that it is concerned with the formal consequences of our definitions and not with questions of empirical fact.”

“Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10^27 atoms.”

“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”

“A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.”

“Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.”

“My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy I like to read: Still e'en when dawdling in a mead, Beneath a cloudless summer sky, By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed, The books I read — I like to buy.”

“The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.”

“My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.29, Simon and Schuster