“And what he fears he cannot make attractive with his touch he abandons.”
Et quae
Desperat tractata nitescere posse relinquit.
Source: Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones (c. 18 BC), Line 149 (tr. H. R. Fairclough)
Martin Samuel, writing in The Times on May 1, 2008. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/european_football/article3851215.ece
“And what he fears he cannot make attractive with his touch he abandons.”
Et quae
Desperat tractata nitescere posse relinquit.
Source: Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones (c. 18 BC), Line 149 (tr. H. R. Fairclough)
“Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.”
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher
Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. <br class="br">Einstein paraphrasing Schopenhauer. Reportedly from On The Freedom Of The Will (1839), as translated in The Philosophy of American History: The Historical Field Theory (1945) by Morris Zucker, p. 531 <br class="br">Variant translations: <br class="br">Man can do what he wants but he cannot want what he wants. <br class="br">As quoted in The Motivated Brain: A Neurophysiological Analysis of Human Behavior (1991) by Pavel Vasilʹevich Simonov, p. 198 <br class="br">We can do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must. <br class="br">As quoted by Einstein in "What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck" The Saturday Evening Post (26 October 1929) p. 17. A scan of the article is available online here http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/what_life_means_to_einstein.pdf (see p. 114). <br class="br">Attributed <br class="br">Source: Essays and Aphorisms
Jack Burnham (1931) American art historian
Preface.
Beyond Modern Sculpture, 1968
Tess Gallagher (1943) American writer
Source: Moon Crossing Bridge