Herman Melville on Mind
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Herman Melville, catalogued under mind, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Herman Melville, entry #142486: "His was the scorn which thinks it not worth the while to be scornful. Those he most scorned, never knew it."
Attributed to Herman Melville, entry #77066: "Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round."
3 Quotes by Herman Melville on Mind
"His was the scorn which thinks it not worth the while to be scornful. Those he most scorned, never knew it."
"Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round."
"Certain it is, however, that this great power of blackness in him derives its force from its appeals to that Calvinistic sense of Innate Depravity and Original Sin, from whose visitations, in some shape or other, no deeply thinking mind is always and wholly free. For, in certain moods, no man can weigh this world, without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance."