Quotes from Robert S. Lynd

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.