“Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.”
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American poet 1930Related quotes
“We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.”
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher
As attributed in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899) by James Wood, p. 624
“Literature is a world that we try to build up and enter at the same time.”
Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist
"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 3: Giants in Time
Context: We relate the poems and plays and novels we read and see, not to the men who wrote them, nor even directly to ourselves; we relate them to each other. Literature is a world that we try to build up and enter at the same time.
N. K. Jemisin book The Obelisk Gate
Source: The Obelisk Gate (2016), Chapter 15 “Nassun, in rejection” (p. 270)
Francis Wayland Parker (1837–1902) Union Army officer
Source: Talks on Pedagogics, (1894), p. 64. Reported in Moritz (1914, 269)
“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.”
Gail Godwin (1937) Novelist, short story writer
“Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
