“Categories of understanding along with everything else alter as societies change.”
William H. McNeill (1917–2016) Canadian historian
Discrepancies among the Social Sciences (1981)
Source: The Last Summer
“Categories of understanding along with everything else alter as societies change.”
William H. McNeill (1917–2016) Canadian historian
Discrepancies among the Social Sciences (1981)
Arthur C. Clarke book Richter 10
Source: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 22, “Richter Ten” (p. 386)
“Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.”
Richard Bach book Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
“Freedom, like everything else, is relative.”
Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer
Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 36 (p. 231)
Boris Vian (1920–1959) French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer
“Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.”
David Icke (1952) English writer and public speaker
Variant: Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.
Source: Davidicke.com
“Truth like everything else should be economised.”
C. P. Scott (1846–1932) British journalist, publisher and politician
Attributed by Malcolm Muggeridge in his suppressed novel Picture Palace (1934), quoted in The Political Diaries of C. P. Scott, 1911–1928, ed. Trevor Wilson (1970), p. 27
Attributed
Fyodor Dostoyevsky book The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Source: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), V
Context: A dream! What is a dream? And is not our life a dream? I will say more. Suppose that this paradise will never come to pass (that I understand), yet I shall go on preaching it. And yet how simple it is: in one day, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted — you will find out at once how to arrange it all. And yet it's an old truth which has been told and retold a billion times — but it has not formed part of our lives! The consciousness of life is higher than life, the knowledge of the laws of happiness is higher than happiness — that is what one must contend against. And I shall. If only everyone wants it, it can be arranged at once.