Jules Henry Quotes

A competitive culture endures by tearing people down. ~ Jules Henry

School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity. ~ Jules Henry

Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it. ~ Charles Jules Henry Nicole

Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of producing almost anything, the time is ripe for opening the storehouse of infinite need! ... It is the modern Pandora's box, and its plagues are loose upon the world. ~ Jules Henry

At the time when I was conducting my research there was no known method for taking the guinea pig's temperature. I demonstrated a technique which is now widely used. ~ Charles Jules Henry Nicole

It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus. ~ Charles Jules Henry Nicole

Up to a certain point anxiety is good, for it promotes action. Beyond that point we freeze any fixed attitudes or rush about without thinking deeply from one decision to another. ~ Jules Henry

I finally demonstrated that typhus infection is not hereditary in the louse. ~ Charles Jules Henry Nicole

The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading system as a measure of their inner excellence. And a function of the self-destructive process in American children is to make them willing to accept not their own, but a variety of other standards, like a grading system, for measuring themselves. It is thus apparent that the way American culture is now integrated it would fall apart if it did not engender feelings of inferiority and worthlessness. ~ Jules Henry

If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental function, degrading parents to mere intermediaries between their children and the market. This indeed is a social revoluation in our time! ~ Jules Henry

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals. ~ Charles Jules Henry Nicole

Even if it had not been possible to reproduce the disease in animals and consequently to verify the hypothesis, this simple observation would have been sufficient to demonstrate the way in which the disease was propagated. ~ Charles Jules Henry Nicole

Try repeating "man is an animal" a few times, just to notice how unconvincing it sounds. There seems to be no way to get this idea into our heads, except by long rumination over the facts of evolution or perhaps by exposure to a primitive tribe or by being raised on a farm. Primitives sometimes see little difference between themselves and the animals around them. Karl von den Steinen was told by a Xingu that the only difference between them and the monkey was that they monkeys lacked the bow and arrow. And Jules Henry observed on the Kningang that dogs are not considered pets, like some of the other animals, but are on a level of emotional equality, like a relative. But in our own Western culture we have, for the most part, set a great distance between ourselves and the rest of nature, and language helps us to do this. Thus we say that a sheep "drops" its lamb, but a woman "gives birth" - it's much more noble. Yet we have the right to make such distinctions because we assign the meaning to the world by naming names of things; we inhabit a different sphere and we capitalize naturally on the privilege. ~ Ernest Becker

The paradox of the human condition is expressed more in education than elsewhere in human culture, because learning to learn has been and continues to be Homo Sapiens' most formidable evolutionary task ... It must also be clear that we will never quite learn how to learn, for since Homo Sapiens is self-changing, and since the more culture changes the faster it changes, man's methods and rate of learning will never quite keep pace with his need to learn. ~ Jules Henry

Just as the only reservoir for the typhus virus in nature is provided by man, so the only vector of infection is the louse. The bite of the louse is not virulent immediately after the infecting meal. It becomes so only towards the 7th day following infection. ~ Charles Jules Henry Nicole

My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today. ~ Charles Jules Henry Nicole

Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread. ~ Charles Jules Henry Nicole

The discovery that I soon made that the guinea pig was also susceptible to infection made it possible for me, from the third year on, to preserve the virus on this animal. ~ Charles Jules Henry Nicole

For after all man knows mighty little, and may some day learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down again and pray. Not that Icare. Only, if such is God's will, and Fate and Evolution
let there be God! ~ Henry Adams

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise. Mrs ~ Henry Fielding

It was the end for me. And yet not an end. In all the years which have since elapsed she remains the woman I loved and lost, the unattainable one [ ... ] I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable.
- Henry Miller, Stand Still like the Hummingbird (1962) ~ Henry Miller

It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake. ~ Henry Lawson

Find your eternity in each moment ~ Henry David Thoreau

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision. ~ Henry David Thoreau

I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect ... always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished. ~ Henry David Thoreau

You are the architect of your own life. ~ Henry Thomas Hamblin

If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores of America. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The times call for courage. The times call for hard work. But if the demands are high, it is because the stakes are even higher. They are nothing less than the future of human liberty, which means the future of civilization. ~ Henry Hazlitt

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," translated Florent. "By Jules Verne. This book I have not read in many years."

"We're reading it in French class," Joseph said. "It's hard to understand, but I found a line that Uncle Albert would love."

Florent opened to a dog-eared page where Joseph had underlined a sentence and written the translation in the margin. Florent read it out loud. "'Let me tell you, Professor, that you will not regret the time spent on board. You are going to travel in a a land of marvels. ~ Brian Selznick

The proposal is frequently made that the government ought to assume the risks that are "too great for private industry." This means that bureaucrats should be permitted to take risks with the tax payer's money that no one is willing to take with his own. ~ Henry Hazlitt

Let the beautiful laws prevail. Let us not weary ourselves by resisting them. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

The foundation of humility is truth. The humble man sees himself as he is. If his depreciation of himself were untrue, ... it wouldnot be praiseworthy, and would be a form of hypocrisy, which is one of the evils of Pride. The man who is falsely humble, we know from our own experience, is one who is falsely proud. ~ Henry Fairlie

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all? ~ Henry David Thoreau

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation. ~ Henry David Thoreau

It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason. ~ Jules Verne

[ ... ] I know how to inflame a cunt. I shoot hot bolts into you, Tania. I make your ovaries incandescent. ~ Henry Miller

If you look for grand examples of anything from me, I shall disappoint you. ~ Henry James

Heavenly Father has given a simple pattern for us to receive the Holy Ghost not once but continually in the tumult of our daily lives. The pattern is repeated in the sacramental prayer: We promise that we will always remember the Savior. We promise to take His name upon us. We promise to keep His commandments. ~ Henry B. Eyring

Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity. ~ Henry Louis Gates

For God's sake, take care of your men. If they fire, they die! ~ Henry Knox

It is the obscene horror, the dry, fucked-out aspect of things which makes this crazy civilization look like a crater. It is this great yawning gulf of nothingness which the creative spirits and mothers of the race carry between their legs. ~ Henry Miller

The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever! ~ Henry David Thoreau

His egotism lay like a serpent in a bank of flowers. ~ Henry James

The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which still remained free. The woman's slavery was assumed to be for life. ~ Henry Adams

It is not how long it takes one to succeed in life that matters but how well. ~ Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Our friend was slightly nervous; that went with his character as a student of fine prose, went with the artist's general disposition to vibrate ~ Henry James

She is bizarre, fantastic, nervous, like someone in a high fever. Her beauty drowned me. As I sat before her, I felt I would do anything she asked of me. Henry suddenly faded. She was color and brilliance and strangeness. By the end of the evening I had extricated myself from her power. She killed my admiration by her talk. Her talk. The enormous ego, false, weak, posturing. She ~ Anais Nin

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom. ~ Henry David Thoreau

leave wizard Henry: at his lectern where
he's working on his phantasies: Disperse!
and everything goes worse
so the world fills with her knees, harmful & fair:
a medium where 'Fuck you' comes as no curse
but come as a sigh or a prayer. ~ John Berryman

Improve every opportunity to be melancholy. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Or perhaps that's just me assigning subterranean levels to every goddamn breath he takes. ~ Mackenzi Lee

Companies selling a product play down its vulnerability and emphasize its robustness. But only after technology leaves the dock is it really tested. For human operators in control of a supposedly infallible system, complacency and overconfidence can take over, and caution may be thrown to the wind. ~ Henry Petroski

I was overweight when I went to school. In fact, I was overweight when I left, just taller. Fatty Cavill was the nickname. I mean, no one wants to be Fatty Cavill. ~ Henry Cavill

I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them. ~ George Henry Lewes

Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself! ~ Henry Miller

Others in the room are listening now. Though I can't see it, I can feel it. ~ Sara Holland

Foreseeing the needs of His children, a loving Heavenly Father placed directions and rescuers along their way. He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to make safe passage possible and visible. ~ Henry B. Eyring