Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
Entry (1955)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
Entry (1955)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)
“The SF created us to enjoy our suffering. … The sooner we die, the sooner we defy His plans.”
Paul Erdős (1913–1996) Hungarian mathematician and freelancer
SF was an abbreviation for "Supreme Fascist" — the term Erdős often used to refer to God, as quoted in The Man Who Loved Only Numbers : The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth (1998) by Paul Hoffman, p. 4
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
The ABC of Relativity (1925), p. 166
1920s
Variant: "Most people would rather die than think; many do."
“Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.”
Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist
Interviewed in Los Angeles on the occasion of her 75th birthday, December 1976, as quoted in Newsweek Vol. 88, p. 157
1970s
“That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Prima o poi verrà la fine della punizione, l'espiazione dei peccati; quindi vivi peccando e non fare il buono: non serve a un cazzo.
Source: prevale.net