Disposition Quotes
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There is a strong disposition in youth, from which some individuals never escape, to suppose that everyone else is having a more enjoyable time than we are ourselves.
— 1952 A Buyer's Market, ch.4.
As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime. ... Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators and beneficiaries from those of a professional-criminal class.
albert jay nock— p. 50 (Our Enemy, the State (1935))
Great occasions rally great principles, and brace the mind to a lofty bearing, a bearing that is even above itself. But trials that make no occasion at all, leave it to show the goodness and beauty it has in its own disposition. And here precisely is the superhuman glory of Christ as a character, that He is just as perfect, exhibits just as great a spirit in little trials as in great ones.
horace bushnell— P. 59. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
I want to feel my own nothingness, I want to give myself up in absolute resignation to God, to lie prostrate and passive at His feet, with no other disposition in my heart than that of merging my will into His will, and no other language in my mouth than that of prayer for the perfecting of His strength in my weakness. I desire from the abyss of my own nothingness and vileness to cry unto God that He might cause me to do as I ought, and to be as I ought.
thomas chalmers— Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895, pg. 331)
"Our family members are believers in Islam. We observe Islamic proprieties and behave in good faith. Believing in Allah, cultivating our minds and disposition, we aim to be good human beings. In particular, it is important to be respectful in the implemation of our prayer and our family members ought to observe the rules of prayer."
ma fuxiang— Masumi, Matsumoto. The completion of the idea of dual loyalty towards China and Islam. Retrieved on 2010-06-28.
The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.
isaac parker— Letter to U.S. Attorney General Augustus Hill Garland (May 27, 1885).
There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis , because it guarantees complete absence of prejudice. For a short time, around 1910, this idea threatened to achieve almost a canonical status in Protestant theology. But now, we can quite calmly describe it as merely comical.
Karl Barth— 1:2
When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to affect it, the idea is grand. Stonehenge , neither for disposition nor ornament, has anything admirable; but those huge rude masses of stone, set on end, and piled each on other, turn the mind on the immense force necessary for such a work. Nay, the rudeness of the work increases this cause of grandeur, as it excludes the idea of art and contrivance; for dexterity produces another sort of effect, which is different enough from this.
Edmund Burke— Part II Section XII
Sometimes I'm happy; sometimes I'm blue; my disposition depends on you.
Irving Caesar— "Sometimes I'm Happy"
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end.
james joyce— Notebook entry, Paris (28 March 1903), printed in James Joyce: Occasional, Critical and Political Writing (2002) edited by Kevin Barry [Oxford University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-192-83353-7], p. 104
Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.
ted malloch— p. 65 (Doing Virtuous Business (Thomas Nelson, 2011))
Most of the early Christian writers thought the text "I and my Father are one," was to be understood of an unity or harmony of disposition only. Thus Tertullian observes, that the expression is unum , one thing, not one person; and he explains it to mean unity, likeness, conjunction, and of the love that the Father bore to the Son. Origen says, "let him consider that text, 'all that believed were of one heart and of one soul,' and then he will understand this, 'I and my Father are one.'"
joseph priestley— Part I : The History of Opinions Relating to Jesus Christ, § III : The Supremacy was always ascribed to the Father before the Council Of Nice
Our forefathers and ancestors of all times have been of this nature and disposition, that, upon the winning of a battle, they have chosen rather, for a sign and memorial of their triumphs and victories, to erect trophies and monuments in the hearts of the vanquished by clemency than by architecture in the lands which they had conquered. For they did hold in greater estimation the lively remembrance of men purchased by liberality than the dumb inscription of arches, pillars, and pyramids, subject to the injury of storms and tempests, and to the envy of everyone.
françois rabelais— Chapter 50 : Gargantua's speech to the vanquished
Hanns Heinz Ewers tells a short story of a boy who was so unnatural of disposition as to take a special delight in people sick with elephantiasis. Our "European intellectuality" finds itself in an identical condition today which, through Jewish pens, worships the Kokoschka, Chagalls and Pechsteins as the leaders of the Art of the future. Features of degeneracy are already apparent, as, for instance, with Schwalbach, who dares representing Jesus as flat footed and bow legged.
alfred rosenberg— Hanns Heinz Ewers erzählt in einer Novelle von einem Kinde, das so widernatürlich veranlagt war, an Elephantiasis-Kranken ein besonderes Wohlgefallen zu finden. In gleichem Zustande befindet sich heute unsere „europäische Geistigkeit“, welche durch jüdische Federn die Kokoschkas, Chagalls, Pechsteins usw. als die Führer der Malerei der Zukunft anbetet. Wo darüber hinaus sich Form hervorwagt, trägt auch sie die mestizenhaft-jüdischen Züge, wie etwa bei Schwalbach, der bereits Jesus als plattfüßig und krummbeinig darzustellen wagt. ("The Myth of the Twentieth Century") - Page 299 - 1930
Pride and jealousy there was in his eye, for his life had been spent in asserting rights which were constantly liable to invasion; and the prompt, fiery, and resolute disposition of the man, had been kept constantly upon the alert by the circumstances of his situation.
walter scott— Ch. 3. (On the postal service)
The root cause of terrorism lies not in grievances but in a disposition toward unbridled violence. This can be traced to a world view which asserts that certain ideological and religious goals justify, indeed demand, the shedding of all moral inhibitions.” Terrorism How the West Can Win.
— Benjamin Netanyahu former Israeli ambassador.
— Awake? magazine, 1/8 - 1987.
There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their perfections which please him.
— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
A great public library, in its catalogue and its physical disposition of its books on shelves, is the monument of literary genres.
— Robert Melancon, quoted in World Literature Today, Spring 1982, p.231.
But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition, to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Everything else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution.
— Edmund Burke, "Reflections on the Revolution in France," 1790, The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke (1899), vol. 3, p. 440.
"Our family members are believers in Islam. We observe Islamic proprieties and behave in good faith. Believing in Allah, cultivating our minds and disposition, we aim to be good human beings. In particular, it is important to be respectful in the implemation of our prayer and our family members ought to observe the rules of prayer."
— Masumi, Matsumoto. The completion of the idea of dual loyalty towards China and Islam. Retrieved on 2010-06-28.
Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations...In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others.
alexis de tocqueville— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America.
The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.
— Of Courage, Chap. xxix. (Fragments)
The crow does not hide its prey, but calls for others to share it; So wealth will be with those of a like disposition.
— Verse LIII.7
A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it, but a good patriot and a true politician always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition to preserve and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Everything else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution.
— Edmund Burke, in Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Peace is not an absence of war , it is a virtue , a state of mind , a disposition for benevolence, confidence , justice .
— Baruch Spinoza, as quoted in A Natural History of Peace (1996) by Thomas Gregor, p. 4
A benevolent disposition is, no doubt, a great help towards a course of uniform practical benevolence; but let no one trust to it, when there are other strong propensities, and no firm good principle.
— Richard Whately on on Bacon’s Essay, Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature. in Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) (1856). Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately. p. 113.
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end.
— James Joyce, Notebook entry, Paris (28 March 1903), printed in James Joyce: Occasional, Critical and Political Writing (2002) edited by Kevin Barry [Oxford University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-192-83353-7], p. 104
