“The highest form of vanity is love of fame.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. II, Reason in Society
“Fame is a form, perhaps the worst form, of incomprehension.”
— Jorge Luis Borges, book Ficciones
Source: Ficciones
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“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech in the House of Commons (11 November 1947), published in 206–07 The Official Report, House of Commons (5th Series), 11 November 1947, vol. 444, cc. http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1947/nov/11/parliament-bill#column_206 <br class="br">Post-war years (1945–1955) <br class="br">Variant: Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried. <br class="br">Context: Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
Whilst a paraphrase this is based off of Aristotle's writings as Aristotle stated "For instance, it is thought that justice is equality, and so it is, though not for everybody but only for those who are equals; and it is thought that inequality is just, for so indeed it is, though not for everybody, but for those who are unequal" in https://www.loebclassics.com/view/aristotle-politics/1932/pb_LCL264.211.xml Politics, III. V. 8.
Misattributed
This first appears in 1974 in an explanation of Aristotle's politics in Time magazine, before being condensed to an epigram as "Aristotle's Axiom" in Peter's People (1979) by Laurence J. Peter
“Aristotle's axiom: The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”
Laurence J. Peter (1919–1990) Canadian eductor
Source: Peter's People and Their Marvelous Ideas
El Greco (1541–1614) Greek painter, sculptor and architect
Quote of El Greco, 1582-84; as cited by Marina Lambraki-Plaka, in El Greco, p. 57-59; as quoted in Wikipedia/El Greco: 'Technique and Style' <br class="br">on making his painting 'The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception' https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/El_Greco_-_The_Virgin_of_the_Immaculate_Conception_-_WGA10585.jpg El Greco asked permission to lengthen the altarpiece itself by another 1.5 feet (0.46 m) - the human body became even more otherworldly in his later works
Jack Burnham (1931) American art historian
Cited in: Robert Horvitz, 'a node for jack burnham' https://horvitz.multiplace.org/burnham/homepage.html. <br class="br">Beyond Modern Sculpture, 1968
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
Bertrand Russell book The Conquest of Happiness
Source: 1930s, The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
“There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.”
Carson McCullers book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter