Roland Barthes (1915–1980) French philosopher, critic and literary theorist
"Myth on the Right," in Mythologies (1957)
Mere Anarchy (2007)
Roland Barthes (1915–1980) French philosopher, critic and literary theorist
"Myth on the Right," in Mythologies (1957)
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) American science fiction author, philosopher, cult leader, and the founder of the Church of Scientology
Saint Hill Special Briefing Course 35 (19 July 1961).
Arthur Schopenhauer book Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life
Sich Alles, was zum leiblichen Wohlseyn beiträgt, zu verschaffen, ist der Zweck seines Lebens. Glücklich genug, wenn dieser ihm viel zu schaffen macht! Denn, sind jene Güter ihm schon zum voraus oktroyirt; so fällt er unausbleiblich der Langenweile anheim.
E. Payne, trans. (1974) Vol. 1, p. 344
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Letter to Harrison Blake (20 May 1860); published in Familiar Letters (1865)
Context: Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses; but they are not so well housed, they are not so contented in their houses, as the woodchucks in their holes. What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? — If you cannot tolerate the planet that it is on? Grade the ground first. If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him … he will be surrounded by grandeur. He is in the condition of a healthy and hungry man, who says to himself, — How sweet this crust is!
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Dogs
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy
“Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1625), Of Nature in Men
John Locke book Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Sec. 129
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)