“The formula 'two plus two equals five' is not without its attractions.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky book Notes from Underground
Part 1, Chapter 9 (page 31)
Notes from Underground (1864)
“Friendship … receives its real sustenance from an equality that, to proceed without a limp, must have its two limbs equal.”
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Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (1548)
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French judge, writer and philosopher 1530–1563Related quotes
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Source: Across the Plains (1892), Ch. IX, Beggars.
Context: We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.
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Variant translations, of the paradoxical statement which begins in German with Es ist gleich tödlich für den Geist, ein System zu haben, und keins zu haben.:
It is equally fatal for the spirit, to have a system and not to have.
The Innovations of Idealism (2003) by Rüdiger Bubner, p. 193
It is equally fatal for the spirit to have a system and to have none. It will simply have to decide to combine the two.
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It is equally fatal for the spirit to have a system, and to have none. So the spirit must indeed resolve to combine the two.
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Source: The Works of Soam Jenyns (1793), p. 190
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Source: Currency and Credit (1919), Chapter II, "Metallic Money", p. 20 (2nd ed. 1921)
Context: The use of money does not disestablish the normal process of creating credit. Money, it is true, is always being paid into the banks by the retailers and others who receive it in the course of business, and they of course receive bank credits in return for the money thus deposited. But for the manufacturers and others who have to pay money out, credits are still created by the exchange of obligations, the banker's immediate obligation being given to his customer in exchange for the customer's obligation to repay at a future date. We shall still describe this dual operation as the creation of credit. By its means the banker creates the means of payment out of nothing, whereas when he receives a bag of money from his customer, one means of payment, a bank credit, is merely substituted for another, an equal amount of cash.
“Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.”
Edward Abbey book Desert Solitaire
"Cliffrose and Bayonets", p. 37
Source: Desert Solitaire (1968)