Famous quotes containing the words general, convention and/or held:
“There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans aremore humane.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following geniusa long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (18791944)
“Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fieldsdiscoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss Westsuperficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.”
—Henrik Ibsen (18281906)