Symbol 11
The Symbols
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 98
“Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself.”
Diary of an Unknown (1988)
Preface of M. Quetelet
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
Context: It would be an error... to suppose that science makes the artist; yet it lends to him the most powerful assistance. In general, it is difficult to keep it within due limits; and I shall even freely admit that Albert Durer, in his work upon the proportions of the human frame, has imparted to it a certain scientific dryness, which lessens its utility. One finds there more of the geometer than the artist, and the geometer, moreover, such as he was at a time when it had not yet been discovered how much the rules of style enhance the value of scientific works, and, above all, of those which appertain at the same time to the domain of the fine arts.
“My job is to assist the common people, I do politics for the people, not for me”
Context: My job is to assist the common people, I do politics for the people, not for me... People are enjoying democracy now.
As spoken at Space Coast 1987 speaking about the Harvard Mark I computer. The Computer was originally She in reference to the Mark I.
“Fortune assists the Bold, the Valiant Man
Oft Conqueror proves, because he thinks he can.”
Fab. LII: Of the Forrester, the Skinner, and a Bear, Moral
The Fables of Aesop (2nd ed. 1668)
"One Grand Tour Deserves Another" in All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal (27 December 1862) http://books.google.com/books?id=13VdAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA378
