
2016, Remarks on Donald Trump and the 2016 race
Source: SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
2016, Remarks on Donald Trump and the 2016 race
“Better the myth of happiness, than the myth of despair.”
The Cornelius Quartet, The Condition of Muzak (1977)
Source: The Mirror; or, Harlequin Everywhere (p. 786)
The Ethic of Freethought (Mar 6, 1883)
“… in science, we often have predecessors much further back in time than we think a priori.”
... en matière scientifique, on a souvent des prédécesseurs beaucoup plus anciens qu'on ne le pense a priori.
mentionning Pierre de Maricourt who thoroughly studied magnetic materials in the 13th century. In his Nobel Prize Banquet speech http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1970/neel-speech.html, December 10, 1970.
“When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.”
“We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free from their authority.”
Letter http://books.google.com/books?id=U-SLXgFQ0hoC&q="We+have+to+hate+our+immediate+predecessors+to+get+free+from+their+authority"&pg=PA509#v=onepage to Edward Garnett (1 February 1913)
Paris Review interview (1958)
Context: Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
Foreword, Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices — A New Version (1979)
The Ethic of Freethought (Mar 6, 1883)