Arthur Conan Doyle
10 quotes
“At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non”
“What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half”
“I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.”
“What I hope is that, when the whole district is full of these little rifle clubs, we may then get a central range to which they could all adjourn. Bisley is very useful to men of means, but to the ordinary civilian rifleman it might as well be in the moon. We must have local ranges if the men are really to get the good of them. "A British Commando", The Strand Magazine (June 1901), referencing the NRA Headquarters at Bisley, Surrey and Conan”
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought. The White Company”
“I can tell you that it is no game for children, and I will confess that, in spite of my nine campaigns, I felt myself turn pale when the first ball flashed past me. (Of cricket) Adventures of Gerard”
“The whole doctrine of original sin, the Fall, the vicarious atonement , the placation of the Almighty by blood”
“Testimony of an Enthusiast”
“These pictures are not occult, but they are psychic because everything that emanates from the human spirit or human brain is psychic. It is not supernatural; nothing is. It is preternatural in the sense that it is not known to our ordinary senses. It is the effect of the joining on the one hand of imagination, and on the other hand of some power of materialization. The imagination, I may say, comes from me”
“The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half”