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L. P. Jacks

British educator, philosopher, and Unitarian minister

1860–1955

6 quotes.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Often credited to Winston Churchill
- Motivation & Goals
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation.
Education through Recreation (1932), p. 1.
- Work
The mechanical mind has a passion for control — of everything except itself.
Revolt Against Mechanism (1933).
- Power
In all great poetry there is a kind of “kenosis” of the understanding, a self-emptying of the tongue. Here language points away from itself to something greater than itself.
The Usurpation Of Language (1910)
- Poetry
Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous — reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision.
“Religious Perplexities” (1922), his Hibbert Lecture.
- Faith
Are not the richest and most significant experiences of man precisely those which are the least patient of verbal reproduction?
The Usurpation Of Language (1910)
- Experience

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