The Pleasures of Literature (1938), p. 17 <!-- London: Cassell -->
“Man is the animal who weeps and laughs — and writes.”
John Cowper Powys (1872–1963) British writer, lecturer and philosopher
If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back — in a book.
The Pleasures of Literature (1938), p. 17
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
"On Wit and Humour"
Lectures on the English Comic Writers (1819)
Ossip Zadkine (1890–1967) French sculptor
c. 1960
Source: 1960 - 1968, Dialogues – conversations with.., quotes, c. 1960, pp. 153-154
“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Letter (6 December 1924); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
An Old Man Over the Body of his Son from The London Literary Gazette (1st March 1823) Medallion Wafers
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
William of Ockham (1285–1349) medieval philosopher and theologian
We clearly gather from all these that nothing should be added to sacred scripture nor anything removed from it. To decide by way of teaching, therefore, which assertion should be considered catholic, which heretical, chiefly pertains to theologians, the experts on divine scripture.
You see that I have set out opposing assertions in response to your question and I have touched on quite strong arguments in support of each position. Therefore consider now which seems the more probable to you.
Vol. I, Book 1, Ch. 2.
Dialogus (1494)
