John Jay Chapman Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• 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. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.

  John Jay Chapman

  Growing Up, Philosophy, Lying

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

• We cannot hand our faith to one another.... Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically individual.

  John Jay Chapman

  Hands, Age, Uniforms

  John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Criticism & memoirs”

• 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

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

• 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

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