Frasi di Arthur James Balfour

Arthur James Balfour, I conte di Balfour , è stato un politico inglese.

Ha fatto parte del Partito Conservatore.

È stato Primo ministro del Regno Unito dal 12 luglio 1902 al 5 dicembre 1906. Era inoltre membro della Massoneria britannica.

Nel 1917, mentre ricopriva la carica di Segretario per gli Affari Esteri Britannico, fu sostenitore della creazione di uno stato ebraico in Palestina in vista della prevista sconfitta dell'Impero Ottomano nell'ambito della Prima guerra mondiale.

Balfour fu membro della Fabian Society.

Fu inoltre presidente della Society for Psychical Research di Londra nel 1893.

Nel 1895 pubblicò il libro Foundations of Belief, che ebbe numerose edizioni e fu tradotto in francese. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. Luglio 1848 – 19. Marzo 1930
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“Everything that happened, good or bad, would subtract something from the lessening store of useful energy, till a time arrived when nothing could happen any more, and the universe, frozen into eternal repose, would for ever be as if it were not.”

Theism and humanism
Contesto: Everything that happened, good or bad, would subtract something from the lessening store of useful energy, till a time arrived when nothing could happen any more, and the universe, frozen into eternal repose, would for ever be as if it were not. /.../ The physical course of nature does not merely fail to indicate design, it seems loudly to proclaim its absence.

“Here we have values which by supposition we are reluctant to lose. Neither scientific observation nor sober sense can preserve them. It is surely permissible to ask what will.”

Theism and humanism
Contesto: Romantic love goes far beyond race requirements. From this point of view it is as useless as aesthetic emotion itself. And, like aesthetic emotion of the profounder sort, it is rarely satisfied with the definite, the limited, and the immediate. It ever reaches out towards an unrealised infinity. It cannot rest content with the prose of mere fact. It sees visions and dreams dreams which to an unsympathetic world seem no better than amiable follies. Is it from sources like these—the illusions of love and the enthusiasms of ignorance—that we propose to supplement the world-outlook provided for us by sober sense and scientific observation?
Yet why not? Here we have values which by supposition we are reluctant to lose. Neither scientific observation nor sober sense can preserve them. It is surely permissible to ask what will.

“We now know too much about matter to be materialists.”

Theism and humanism
Contesto: We now know too much about matter to be materialists. The very essence of the physical order of things is that it creates nothing new. Change is never more than a redistribution of that which never changes. But sensibility belongs to the world of consciousness, not to the world of matter.

“Our whole political machinery presupposes a people so fundamentally at one that they can safely afford to bicker.”

Introduction to Walter Bagehot's The English Constitution (London: Oxford University Press, 1928), p. xxiv.

“The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.”

Speech (7 May 1926), reported in The Observer (14 November 1926), quoted in Robert Andrews, The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations (2003)

/ Lord President of the Council

“…there were some things that were true, and some things that were trite; but what was true was trite, and what was not trite was not true…”

Quoted by Winston Churchill in his Great Contemporaries (London & New York, 1937) p. 250 http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/quotations/quotes-falsely-attributed

“The Irish had owed their success to crime. Winston practically admitted it. They had defied British rule,—and British rulers had given in to them. How could such a state of things be said to fit in with the scheme of the Empire?”

Remarks after the publication of Winston Churchill's book The Aftermath (1929), quoted in Blanche E. C. Dugdale, Arthur James Balfour, First Earl of Balfour, K.G., O.M., F.R.S., Etc. 1906–1930 (London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1936), p. 248
Lord President of the Council

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