Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 154
“My works are 12-tone compositions, not 12-tone compositions”
Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) Austrian-American composer
Stuckenschmidt, Hans Heinz. 1977, in Schoenberg: His Life, World and Work; translated from the German by Humphrey Searle. p. 349.
after 1930
John G. Bennett (1897–1974) British mathematician and author
Source: The Dramatic Universe: Man and his nature (1966), p. 7
Philip Schaff (1819–1893) American Calvinist theologian
German versions of the Bible that preceded the Luther Bible
“Wit lasts no more than two centuries.”
Stendhal (1783–1842) French writer
Le même esprit ne dure que deux cents ans.
Letter to Honoré de Balzac (30 October 1840)
“Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry.”
David Hare (1947) British writer
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 143.
Misattributed
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Letter to Rachel Gleason Brooks, May 5, 1930
1930s
Henri Matisse (1869–1954) French artist
Source: 1900s, Notes d'un Peintre (Notes of a Painter) (1908), p. 411
Oliver Wendell Holmes book Elsie Venner
Elsie Venner (1859)
Context: You inherit your notions from a set of priests that had no wives and no children, or none to speak of, and so let their humanity die out of them. It didn't seem much to them to condemn a few thousand millions of people to purgatory or worse for a mistake of judgment. They didn't know what it was to have a child look up in their faces and say 'Father!' It will take you a hundred or two more years to get decently humanized, after so many centuries of de-humanizing celibacy.
