Introduction On Taste
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)
“It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.”
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
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L'âme est une chose si impalpable, si souvent inutile et quelquefois si gênante, que je n'éprouvai, quant à cette perte, qu'un peu moins d'émotion que si j'avais égaré, dans une promenade, ma carte de visite.
XXIX: "Le Joueur généreux" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Petits_Po%C3%A8mes_en_prose_-_XXIX._Le_Joueur_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9reux
Le Spleen de Paris (1862)
“Is it then so sad a thing to die?”
Usque adeone mori miserum est?
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book XII, Line 646 (tr. Alexander Thomson)
“How it is we have so much information, but know so little?”
Noam Chomsky
(1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist
Randal Marlin
(1938) Canadian academic
Source: Propaganda & The Ethics Of Persuasion (2002), Chapter Five, Advertising And Public Relations Ethics, p. 176
“I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.”
Bill Watterson
(1958) American comic artist
“It is so sad —
So very lonely — to be the sole one
In whom there is a sign of change!”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
(1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Knight’s Tale from The London Literary Gazette: 31st July 1824 Poetic Sketches - 5th Series - Sketch the Third
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
