Quine's paradox, in "The Ways of Paradox" in "The Ways of Paradox and other Essays" (1976)
1970s
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
Essay on John Bright, Virginia University Magazine, 19:354-370 http://books.google.com/books?id=qP2eeyB3QkYC&pg=PA73&dq=%22rejoice+in+the+failure+of+the+Confederacy%22 (March 1880) <br class="br">1880s
Tobias Dantzig (1884–1956) American mathematician
Number: The Language of Science (1930)
“Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Source: My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 9 (Education At Bangalore).
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Quotation and Originality
Source: Prose and Poetry
Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716) German mathematician and philosopher
Et comme tout présent état d'une substance simple est naturellement une suite de son état précédent, tellement, que le présent y est gros de l'avenir.
La monadologie (22).
The Monadology (1714)
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
June 5, 1936 Fire
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
“Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.”
George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist
From "Life" in Unspoken Sermons Series II (1886)
Context: "In the midst of life we are in death," said one; it is more true that in the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow — a word for that which cannot be — a negation, owing the very idea of itself to that which it would deny. But for life there could be no death. If God were not, there would not even be nothing. Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.
