Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
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British banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scienti… 1834–1913Related quotes
“Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.”
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“At last we see what a four-hour erection looks like.”
Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter
The Fall of the Revengers, discussing the film Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen "Roger Ebert's Journal" http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/06/the_fall_of_the_revengers.html (24 June 2009) <br class="br">Context: I didn't have a stop watch, but it seemed to me the elephantine action scenes were pretty much spaced out evenly through the movie. There was no starting out slow and building up to a big climax. The movie is pretty much all climax. The Autobots® and Decepticons® must not have read the warning label on their Viagra. At last we see what a four-hour erection looks like.
“What we are looking for is what is looking.”
Francis of Assisi (1182–1226) Catholic saint and founder of the Franciscan Order
Karl Popper book The Poverty of Historicism
The Poverty of Historicism (1957) Ch. 29 The Unity of Method
Context: If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories. In this way it is only too easy to obtain what appears to be overwhelming evidence in favor of a theory which, if approached critically, would have been refuted.