Twofold Quotes

The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.

Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.