Quotes by John Jay Chapman

John Jay Chapman

A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.

Focus

Magazines

Ratios

A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Organization

Political

Thieves

A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men, who refuse to be disturbed, but who growl in their kennels.

Education

Inspirational

Men

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair – why, this is the desideratum of mankind.

Armchairs

Doe

Vision

All progress is experimental.

Progress

Work

As for boredom … I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.

Boredom

Done

Leaving Me

Attack another’s rights and you destroy your own.

Liberty

Rights

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

Life

Teacher

Teaching

Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.

Enthusiasm

Generations

Secret

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same – hardihood. Give them raw truth.

America

Hate

Squash

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Doe

Dog

Done

Earth

Easy

Education

Emotion

Enemy

Enthusiasm

Focus

Generations

Giving

Goes On

Government

Growing Up

Hands

Happiness

Hate

Hatred

Heartbroken

Home

Humans

Ideas

Inspirational

Intellect

Intelligent

Leaving Me

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Life

Literature

Long

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Lying

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May

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Quotes by John Jay Chapman

John Jay Chapman

A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.

A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men, who refuse to be disturbed, but who growl in their kennels.

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair – why, this is the desideratum of mankind.

All progress is experimental.

As for boredom … I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.

Attack another’s rights and you destroy your own.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same – hardihood. Give them raw truth.

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