Oscar W. Firkins Quotes

• The strictly logical mind is usually if not always at fault in its valuations of that defiantly illogical thing known as human nature.

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  Oscar W. Firkins (1934). “Memoirs and Letters”, p.202, U of Minnesota Press

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• Humour is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought - rather it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy.

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  World   Serious   Economy  

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• The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield.

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• If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience, it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.

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  Oscar W. Firkins (1934). “Memoirs and Letters”, p.45, U of Minnesota Press

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• Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders.

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  Humor   Greatness   Serious  

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• All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

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  Oscar W. Firkins (1934). “Memoirs and Letters”, p.94, U of Minnesota Press

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