“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”
La science de la mère comporte des mérites silencieux, ignorés de tous, sans parade, une vertu en détail, un dévouement de toutes les heures.
Part I, ch. XLV.
Letters of Two Brides (1841-1842)
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Donald Judd (1928–1994) artist
1960s, "Oral history interview with Donald Judd," 1965
Context: I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality. I think most of us in one way or another are involved in ideas of a fairly loose world, however it's expressed, whether obviously as in Chamberlain or just accidentally, or, oh, like Newman.
Mark Hopkins (educator) (1802–1887) American educationalist and theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 535.
Will Eisner (1917–2005) American cartoonist
Source: The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (10/2/2005), p.86
“What is art but the denial of life?”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 174
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Que é a arte senão a negação da vida?
“There is simply too much known to continue the older approach of giving detailed results.”
Richard Hamming (1915–1998) American mathematician and information theorist
Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)
Context: We intend to teach the doing of mathematics. The applications of these methods produce the results of mathematics (which usually is only what is taught)... There is also a deliberate policy to force you to think abstractly... it is only through abstraction that any reasonable amount of useful mathematics can be covered. There is simply too much known to continue the older approach of giving detailed results.
Vijay R. Singh (1931–2006) Fijian politician
Speaking Out (2006)
“The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.”
Joyce Carol Oates The Gravedigger's Daughter
Source: The Gravedigger's Daughter
“Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Sometimes quoted with the spelling "forgo", but Bierce used "forego" in his 1911 Collected Works
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