“The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be denied that dogma draws a circle round the mind.”
Hail and Farewell (1912), vol. 2: Salve, Kessinger Publishing, 2005, ISBN 1-417-93272-4, ch. XV (p. 36).
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Black Elk (1863–1950) Oglala Lakota leader
Source: Black Elk Speaks (1961), Ch. 17 : The First Cure
Context: Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.
Charles Frazier (1950) American writer
Source: Nightwoods
“Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
This adage had previously appeared, identically worded, in Coleridge's The Statesman's Manual (1816)
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Circles
“Through a vicious circle of pure reason skepsis itself becomes dogma.”
Johann Georg Hamann (1730–1788) German philosopher
Briefwechsel, ed. Arthur Henkel (1955-1975), vol. V, p. 432.
“A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Quoting a schoolchild in "English as She Is Taught"
