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Category: Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

I failed, he said, I got talking my ideas. It’s my greatest failing.

failing, ideas, talking

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Then our crime’s worse than a murderer’s. His act puts him outside the law, but keeps the law intact. Ours would weaken the law.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Yet the great “Why?” always at the center of the little “whats” and “hows” that makes religions into mythologies is often stronger in dead temples than in living.

mythology, religion, temple

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Nothing imaginative ever happens to five people at once, because each is up to only one-fifth of his personal intelligence and perception. A crowd is never equal to the intelligence of any one of its members.

groups, intelligence

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Nothing imaginative ever happens to five people at once, because each is up to only one-fifth of his personal intelligence and perception. A crowd is never equal to the intelligence of any one of its members.

groups, intelligence

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Yet the great “Why?” always at the center of the little “whats” and “hows” that makes religions into mythologies is often stronger in dead temples than in living.

mythology, religion, temple