Jane Roberts (1929–1984) American Writer
Source: Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness, (1986), p. 347, quoting from Session 274
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Jane Roberts (1929–1984) American Writer
Source: Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness, (1986), p. 347, quoting from Session 274
Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802) book Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Source: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), p. 30
“It doesn’t matter what temperature a room is, it’s always room temperature.”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
“If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
This actually first appears in Recent Experiments in Psychology (1950) by Leland Whitney Crafts, Théodore Christian Schneirla, and Elsa Elizabeth Robinson, where it is expressed:
: If we used a different vocabulary or if we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
Randy Allen Harris, in Rhetoric and Incommensurability (2005), p. 35, and an endnote on p. 138 indicates the misattribution seems to have originated in a misreading of quotes in Patterns Of Discovery: An Inquiry Into The Conceptual Foundations of Science (1958) by Norwood Russell Hanson, where an actual quotation of WIttgenstein on p. 184 is followed by one from the book on psychology.
Misattributed
Nicholas Kurti (1908–1998) Hungarian physicist
as quoted by George Porter in the preface of [But the Crackling is Superb, An Anthology on Food and Drink by Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society, Institute of Physics Publishing, London, UK, 1988, 0-750-30488-X, xvii]
Louis Sachar (1954) American writer of children's books
Source: The Cardturner: A Novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker