“One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
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“One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.”
Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English writer and clergyman
Vol. I, p. 53
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.”
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 13.
“I've always found that the root of a computer problem is human frailty”
Ian McDonald book River of Gods
Source: River of Gods (2006), Ch. 2 (p. 27).
Mario Bunge (1919) Argentine philosopher and physicist
Obscurity is rude, because it assumes the interlocutor is incapable of understanding and dialoguing.
"Xenius, Platón y Manolito," newspaper essay (in Spanish) in La Nación, July 9, 2008.
2000s
“Music should humbly seek to please; within these limits great beauty may perhaps be found.”
Claude Debussy (1862–1918) French composer
Quoted in French Music : From the Death of Berlioz to the Death of Fauré (1951) by Martin Cooper, p. 136, and in Debussy and Wagner (1979) by Robin Holloway, p. 207
Context: Music should humbly seek to please; within these limits great beauty may perhaps be found. Extreme complication is contrary to art. Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.