Julius Hare Quotes

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If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine.

Julius Hare
Many people make their own God; and he is much what the French may mean when they talk of le bon Dieu,--very indulgent, rather weak, near at hand when we want anything, but far away out of sight when we have a mind to do wrong. Such a God is as much an idol as if he were an image of stone.

Julius Hare
To no kind of begging are people so averse, as to begging pardon; that is, when there is any serious ground for doing so.

Julius Hare
What a pity it is that there are so many words! Whenever one wants to say anything, three or four ways of saying it run into one's head together; and one can't tell which to choose. It is as troublesome and puzzling as choosing a ribbon... or a husband.

Julius Hare
The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

Julius Hare
The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.

Julius Hare
The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.

Julius Hare
By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.

Julius Hare
A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.

Julius Hare
Notions may be imported by books from abroad; ideas must be grown at home by thought.

Julius Hare
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Julius Hare