“At times the world sees straight, but many times the world goes astray.”
Interdum volgus rectum videt, est ubi peccat.
Book II, epistle i, line 63
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)
No Maps for These Territories (2000)
“At times the world sees straight, but many times the world goes astray.”
Interdum volgus rectum videt, est ubi peccat.
Book II, epistle i, line 63
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)
“At times the world sees straight, but many times the world goes astray.”
Interdum volgus rectum videt, est ubi peccat.
Virgil (-70–-19 BC) Ancient Roman poet
Horace, Epistles, Book II, epistle i, line 63
Misattributed
Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer
Zen Masters : The Wisdom of Frank Zappa (2003)
Context: Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see which has people in it who believe a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.
“Some people don't realize that a straight 'No' can be the kindest answer in the world.”
Jonathan Coe book The Dwarves of Death
Source: The Dwarves of Death
“Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now”
Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
Carl Andre (1935) American artist
quote of Andre in an interview, 1972; in Carl Andre, Cuts: Texts, 1959–2004, ed. by James Meyer, MIT: Cambridge, MA, 2005, p. 142