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Aesop 36
ancient Greek storyteller -620–-564 BCRelated quotes
“The Constitution deals with substance, not shadows.”
Cummings v. State of Missouri, 71 U. S. 277, 325 (1866).
Quoted in John Dewey and American Democracy by Robert Westbrook (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991), p. 440; cited in Understanding Power http://www.understandingpower.com/Chapter9.htm#f16| (2002) by Noam Chomsky, ch. 9, footnote 16; originally from "The Need for a New Party" (1931) by John Dewey, Later Works 6, http://books.google.com/books?id=0xPFJ2uwpbIC&lpg=PA163&ots=dd3ciwpXoJ&dq=%22shadow%20cast%22%20dewey&pg=PA163#v=onepage&q&f=false| p. 163. (Via Westbrook.)
Misc. Quotes
Welcome to the Standard Nightmare (p. 102)
Short fiction, The Robot Who Looked Like Me (1978)
“As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things.”
Study of Words; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907.
“You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.”
Source: Journey to the End of the Night
“Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.”
Source: Memories of Midnight
Part I, 4
The Kingfishers (1950)
Context: We can be precise. The factors are
in the animal and / or the machine the factors are
communication and / or control, both involve
the message. And what is the message? The message is
a discrete or continuous sequence of measurable events distributed in time is the birth of the air, is
the birth of water, is
a state between
the origin and
the end, between
birth and the beginning of
another fetid nest is change, presents
no more than itself And the too strong grasping of it,
when it is pressed together and condensed,
loses it This very thing you are
“Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream
But of a shadow, summ'd with all his substance.”
Act I, scene i.
Bussy D'Ambois (1607)