Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
C'est une des superstitions de l'esprit humain d'avoir imaginé que la virginité pouvait être une vertu.
Notebooks (c.1735-c.1750)
This quotation and the three that follow directly below are from the so-called Leningrad Notebook, also known as Le Sottisier; it is one of several posthumously published notebooks of Voltaire.
Citas
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
"If God Will Send His Angels"
Lyrics, Pop (1997)
Context: If God will send his angels
I sure could use them here right now
Well if God would send his angels
And I don't have to know how.
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Entertaining Angels
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part X - The Position of a HomoUnius Libri
“Twenty years ago no one could have imagined the effects the Internet would have”
J. G. Ballard (1930–2009) British writer
As quoted in "Age of unreason" by Jeannette Baxter in The Guardian (22 June 2004)
Context: Twenty years ago no one could have imagined the effects the Internet would have: entire relationships flourish, friendships prosper…there’s a vast new intimacy and accidental poetry, not to mention the weirdest porn. The entire human experience seems to unveil itself like the surface of a new planet.
“Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.”
Max Brooks book World War Z
Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Russell Crowe (1964) New Zealand-born Australian actor, film producer and musician
GQ Interview (2005)
Edwin Abbott Abbott book Flatland
Source: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884), PART II: OTHER WORLDS, Chapter 19. How, Though the Sphere Showed Me Other Mysteries of Spaceland, I Still Desired More; and What Came of It
Context: p>Gracious Teacher, deny me not what I know it is in thy power to perform. Grant me but one glimpse of thine interior, and I am satisfied for ever, remaining henceforth thy docile pupil, thy unemancipable slave, ready to receive all thy teachings and to feed upon the words that fall from thy lips. SPHERE. Well, then, to content and silence you, let me say at once, I would shew you what you wish if I could; but I cannot. Would you have me turn my stomach inside out to oblige you?</p
