“Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.”
John Steinbeck book Cannery Row
Source: Cannery Row
“When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all.”
Maxim 338
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
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“All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
Montaigne, Essais, liv. III, chap. viii.—Faugère <br class="br">The Art of Persuasion <br class="br">Context: All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art of Conversation http://books.google.com/books?id=iRBEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA452& pauses with so much care to make it understood that we must not judge of the capacity of a man by the excellence of a happy remark that we heard him make.... let us penetrate, says he, the mind from which it proceeds... it will oftenest be seen that he will be made to disavow it on the spot, and will be drawn very far from this better thought in which he does not believe, to plunge himself into another, quite base and ridiculous.
“Men are forever doing two things at the same time: acting egoistically and talking moralistically.”
Constantin Brunner (1862–1937) German philosopher
The Tyranny of Hate: The Roots of Antisemitism : A Translation into English of Memsheleth Sadon (1992), p. 25
“We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Address in Baltimore, Maryland http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=88871 (18 April 1864) <br class="br">1860s <br class="br">Context: The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name — liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names — liberty and tyranny.
“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
A Short History of England (1917)
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Aphorism (1937), p. 38
Attributed in posthumous publications, Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
Context: Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different attempts to link our experiences together by way of systematic thought.
“Two people rarely see the same thing.”
Agatha Christie book Murder on the links
Source: The Murder on the Links
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 2