Famous quotes containing the words hidden, object and/or game:
“Impenetrable in their dissimulation, cruel in their vengeance, tenacious in their purposes, unscrupulous as to their methods, animated by profound and hidden hatred for the tyranny of manit is as though there exists among them an ever-present conspiracy toward domination, a sort of alliance like that subsisting among the priests of every country.”
—Denis Diderot (17131784)
“Man you can define; but the true essence of any man, say, for instance, of Abraham Lincoln, remains the endlessly elusive and mysterious object of the biographers interest, of the historians comments, of popular legend, and of patriotic devotion.”
—Josiah Royce (18551916)
“Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.”
—George Berkeley (16851753)