What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
William James

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
John Ruskin

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
John Ruskin

One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.
Emma Goldman

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
Benjamin Disraeli

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
Charles Horton Cooley

At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.
Marilyn vos Savant

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
George Eliot

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Elizabeth Taylor

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
Demosthenes

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.
Demosthenes

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
William Penn

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.
Neil Gaiman

Time is generally the best doctor.
Ovid

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Elbert Hubbard

There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.
Larry David

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
Mignon McLaughlin

I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.
Megan Fox

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow