“Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.”
Source: Palace of Desire
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Egyptian writer 1911–2006Related quotes
Michael Friendly (1945) American psychologist
Michael Friendly. " A brief history of data visualization http://www.datavis.ca/papers/hbook.pdf at datavis.ca, March 21, 2006.
“But sad as angels for the good man's sin,
Weep to record, and blush to give it in.”
Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) British writer
Part II, line 357
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
“The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.”
Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English mathematician and philosopher
Source: 1930s, Adventures of Ideas (1933), p. 349.
“We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.”
Mario Benedetti (1920–2009) Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet
Dan Simmons book The Rise of Endymion
Source: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 13 (p. 261)
Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009) British information theorist
Source: The Structure of Information Retrieval Systems (1959), p. 1275.
“Nothing, I think, would be so likely to effect this”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Thomas Jefferson to Mordecai M. Noah, May 28, 1818. Manuscript Division, Papers of Thomas Jefferson. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/loc/madison.html <br class="br">1810s <br class="br">Context: Your sect by its sufferings has furnished a remarkable proof of the universal spirit of religious intolerance inherent in every sect, disclaimed by all while feeble, and practiced by all when in power. Our laws have applied the only antidote to this vice, protecting our religious, as they do our civil rights, by putting all on an equal footing. But more remains to be done, for although we are free by the law, we are not so in practice. Public opinion erects itself into an inquisition, and exercises its office with as much fanaticism as fans the flames of an Auto-da-fé. The prejudice still scowling on your section of our religion altho' the elder one, cannot be unfelt by ourselves. It is to be hoped that individual dispositions will at length mould themselves to the model of the law, and consider the moral basis, on which all our religions rest, as the rallying point which unites them in a common interest; while the peculiar dogmas branching from it are the exclusive concern of the respective sects embracing them, and no rightful subject of notice to any other. Public opinion needs reformation on that point, which would have the further happy effect of doing away the hypocritical maxim of "intus et lubet, foris ut moris". Nothing, I think, would be so likely to effect this, as to your sect particularly, as the more careful attention to education, which you recommend, and which, placing its members on the equal and commanding benches of science, will exhibit them as equal objects of respect and favor.