“an interview for The Journal of Advanced Rhetoric (2018)”
Philippe Sollers (1936) French philosopher
Nombres est écrit avant mai 1968, coïncidence improbable mais profonde.
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“an interview for The Journal of Advanced Rhetoric (2018)”
Philippe Sollers (1936) French philosopher
Nombres est écrit avant mai 1968, coïncidence improbable mais profonde.
Gianluigi Buffon (1978) Italian association football player
Gianluigi Buffon, as quoted in Football Italia (07/07/29)
Steven Spielberg (1946) American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur
The Making of Schindler's List
“Back he'll come…With vine leaves in his hair. Flushed and confident.”
Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet
Hedda, Act II
Hedda Gabler (1890)
“Fear only has one enemy and that is a confident persona.”
Torrie Wilson (1975) American professional wrestler
WWE Hall of Fame induction (2019)
Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)
Context: Creation was not successive; it was one instantaneous thought and act, identical with the will, and was complete and unchangeabble from end to end, including time as one of its functions. Thomas was as clear as possible on that point:— "Supposing God wills anything in effect, he cannot will not to will it, because his will cannot change." He wills that some things shall be contingent and others necessary, but he wills in the same act that the contingency shall be necessary. "They are contingent because God has willed them to be so, and with this object has subjected them to causes which are so." In the same way he wills that his creation shall develop itself in time and space and sequence, but he creates these conditions as well as the events. He creates the whole, in one act, complete, unchangeable, and it is then unfolded like a rolling panorama with its predetermined contingencies.Man's free choice — liberum arbitrium — falls easily into place as a predetermined contingency. God is the First Cause, and acts in all Secondary Causes directly; but while he acts mechanically on the rest of creation,— as far as is known,— he acts freely at one point, and this free action remains free as far as it extends on that line. Man's freedom derives from this source, but it is simply apparent, as far as he is a cause; it is a [... ] Reflex Action of the complicated mirror [... ] called Mind, and [... ] an illusion arising from the extreme delicacy of the machine.
“As to whether the depression will come back, it is every depressive's fear.”
Sally Brampton (1955–2016) British writer
Source: Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
Letter to Johann Kaspar Lavatar (6 March 1780)
“Why waste time learning when ignorance is instantaneous.
---Hobbes”
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
15 Nov 90
Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons