John Jay Chapman
John Jay Chapman
John Jay Chapmanwas an American author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth2 March 1862
CountryUnited States of America
work progress
All progress is experimental.
rights liberty
Attack another's rights and you destroy your own.
hate squash america
Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.
agreement too-much
Too much agreement kills the chat.
focus magazines ratios
A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.
music real men
The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.
growing-up philosophy lying
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.
government outcomes virtue
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
heartbroken home ambition
The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people - if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense - the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome.
boredom done leaving-me
As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.
society new-testament criticize
You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.
party magic curiosity
If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.
steps culture easy
Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.
vision doe armchairs
A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.