Quotes by Norman Douglas

Norman Douglas

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Attitude

Believe

Men

A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.

Food

Grandmother

Men

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.

Culture

Food

Trying

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

Authority

Firsts

Should

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Echoes

Education

School

Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself.

Fire

Men

Reading

He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity – a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.

Atheism

Mind

Scylla

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one’s senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

Mind

Reality

Sometimes

How often could things be remedied by a word. How often is it left unspoken.

Communication

Left

Often Is

I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.

Deities

Imagination

Weakness

Follow The Behaviour University in order to get the greatest quotes from the greatest people of all time so that you can tap into your own greatness.

Advertising

Age

Aphrodisiac

Ardent

Artist

Atheism

Attitude

Authority

Believe

Book

Born

Business

Carpe Diem

Change

Character

Children

Communication

Culture

Deities

Disappointment

Dishes

Doe

Drinking

Dying

Echoes

Education

Enjoy

Epigrams

Eye

Family

Fire

Firsts

Flower

Food

Friendship

Funny

Giving

Grandmother

Green

Half

Happiness

Hardship

Home

Hustle

Ignoble

Imagination

Inspirational

Issues

Justice

Keeping Promises

The Future Blueprint

Tool

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

Tool

The Autobiography

Tool

The Behaviour Diary

Tool

The Dating Diary

Tool

The Relationship Therapist

Tool

Quotes by Norman Douglas

Norman Douglas

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself.

He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity – a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one’s senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

How often could things be remedied by a word. How often is it left unspoken.

I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.

Get Social with TBU

Topics by Norman Douglas

Popular Tools

The Future Blueprint

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

The Autobiography

The Behaviour Diary

The Dating Diary

The Relationship Therapist

Menu

Menu