#refers

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient. ↗

— Horace

#expedient #faithful #good #honorable #judge

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#because #bomb #everything #great #great moment

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#embrace #faculty #human #incompatible #just

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#been #every #himself #indignation #into

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#ear #evil #gives #good #goodness

Nature conserves, prefers novelty. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#novelty #prefers

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#genius #incompleteness #prefers #saying #should

'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#been #cheeseburger #come #could #easily

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#every #every man #exercise #judgment #man

Androgyny refers to a specific way of joining the 'masculine' and 'feminine' aspects of a single human being. ↗

— June Singer

#aspects #being #feminine #human #human being