Benjamin Jowett
Benjamin Jowett
Benjamin Jowettwas renowned as an influential tutor and administrative reformer in the University of Oxford, a theologian and translator of Plato and Thucydides. He was Master of Balliol College, Oxford...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTeacher
Date of Birth15 April 1817
kindness justice action
We can't search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive.
plato play bears
Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.
feelings taste inscriptions
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely a word of true poetry anywhere.
book men one-man
One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
peace past want
I am not blaming the past. ... But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.
science research excuse
Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
college scary afternoon
If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.
successful unnecessary precaution
Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.
peace kindness unique
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
truth lying character
There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.
effort language compromise
All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
educational men may
To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.
giving clergy
Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.
life positive business
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.