Leslie Stephen
Leslie Stephen
Sir Leslie Stephen KCBwas an English author, critic, historian, biographer, and mountaineer, and father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 November 1832
eye views his-eyes
He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.
profound wish study
If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
religion atheism division
The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.
believe men people
God is angry with man. Unless we believe and repent we shall all be damned. It is impossible, indeed, for its advocates even to say this without instantly contradicting themselves. Their doctrine frightens them. They explain in various ways that a great many people will be saved without believing, and that eternal damnation is not eternal nor damnation.
thinking people doubt
If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.
thinking way opinion
The only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is by encouraging him to think for himself, instead of endeavoring to instill ready-made opinions into his head.
men walking-meditation play
Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.
behind confidence couple great playing plays runs team throwing tremendous
She's throwing well. She's just playing with tremendous confidence. The team has made some great plays behind her. If we get her a couple of runs for a lead, as a coach, it's a great feeling.
believe men mountain-peaks
I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong to leave any district without setting foot on its highest peak.