"What I Am"
Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988)
“I didn't come out of a cereal box.”
Source: The Drunkard's Walk, Chapter 1, Peering Through The Eyepiece Of Randomness, p. 13
Speech at the Democratic National Convention (18 August 1956)
Letter to a Japanese Animal Welfare Society (1961)
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 31
“Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.”
Said by the Duchess in Book V, ch. XIX.
The Awkward Age (1899)
“Keep clear of the dupes that talk democracy
And the dogs that talk revolution”
"The Stars Go Over The Lonely Ocean" (1940)
Context: Keep clear of the dupes that talk democracy
And the dogs that talk revolution,
Drunk with talk, liars and believers.
I believe in my tusks.
Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.
Man wolle nicht scheinen was man nicht ist. Das Vorgeben unbefangener Wahrheitsforschung, mit dem Entschluß, die Landesreligion zum Resultat, ja zum Maaßstabe und zur Kontrole derselben zu machen, ist unerträglich, und eine solche, an die Landesreligion, wie der Kettenhund an die Mauer, gebundene Philosophie ist nur das ärgerliche Zerrbild der höchsten und edelsten Bestrebung der Menschheit.
Sämtliche Werke, Bd. 5, pp. 155–156, E. Payne, trans. (1974) Vol. 1, p. 143
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), On Philosophy in the Universities
