Gilbert Highet
Gilbert Highet
Gilbert Arthur Highetwas a Scottish-American classicist, academic, writer, intellectual, critic and literary historian...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth22 June 1906
book heart men
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.
girl giving-up teaching
If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching.
teacher teaching justice
Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.
book mind alive
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
people drunk habit
Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.
believe thinking people
The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought and action that will (they believe) cover everything; and then they try to impose that on all thinking people.
art real fighting
The art of invective resembles the art of boxing. Very few fights are won with the straight left. It is too obvious, and it can betoo easily countered. The best punches, like the best pieces of invective in this style, are either short-arm jabs, unexpectedly rapid and deadly; or else one-two blows, where you prepare your opponent with the first hit, and then, as his face comes forward, connect with your other fist: one, two. Both are effective; but they can be administered only by a real artist, with a real wish to knock his enemy out.
country past civilization
A period of high civilization is one in which thoughts fly freely from mind to mind, from one country to another-yes, from the past into the present.
believe ignorance our-society
I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.