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It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans. - Van Brooks Quotes

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means. - Van Brooks Quotes

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere. - Van Brooks Quotes

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses - Van Brooks Quotes

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses

Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. - Van Brooks Quotes

Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few - Van Brooks Quotes

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few

A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound. - Van Brooks Quotes

A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound.

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As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day. - Van Brooks Quotes

As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. - Van Brooks Quotes

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset? - Van Brooks Quotes

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

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