“Why is this thus? What is the reason of this thusness?”
Artemus Ward (1834–1867) American writer
Moses, the Sassy.
“if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.”
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 42
“Wherefore not without cause has one of your own followers asked, "If God is, whence come evil things? If He is not, whence come good?"”
Unde haud iniuria tuorum quidam familiarium quaesiuit: `si quidem deus', inquit, `est, unde mala? Bona uero unde, si non est?
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480) philosopher of the early 6th century
Prose IV, line 30; translation by W.V. Cooper
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book I
“True thusness is without defiling thought; it cannot be known through conception and thought.”
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
Striking Thoughts (2000)
“Whence has come thy lasting power.”
William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1838–1903) British politician
On an old Song. Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“[…I] answer boldly in the affirmative with an emphatic No!”
Boyle Roche (1736–1807) Irish politician
Occasion unknown.
[Falkiner, C. Litton, Studies in Irish History and Biography, mainly of the Eighteenth Century, 1902, Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, Sir Boyle Roche, p.237]
“Emphatically no, and I never have been.”
Stafford Cripps (1889–1952) British politician
Peter Howard, "Men on Trial" (Blandford Press, 1945), p. 69
Asked by Peter Howard whether he favoured the use of any measure of force to establish Socialism.
“Let them make their war.
Whence come night and day?”
Taliesin (534–599) Welsh bard
Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The First Address of Taliesin
Context: Let them make their war.
Whence come night and day?
Whence will the eagle become gray?
Whence is it that night is dark?
Whence is it that the linnet is green?
The ebullition of the sea,
How is it not seen?
Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer
Source: The Rubaiyat (1120)