Source: Culture series, The Player of Games (1988), Chapter 3 “Machina Ex Machina” (p. 306).
“It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.”
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Oscar Wilde
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
“Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone.”
Source: The House of the Spirits
“It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.”
Heraclitus
(-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
Fragment 50, as translated in the Loeb Classics edition http://www.loebclassics.com/view/heracleitus_philospher-universe/1931/pb_LCL150.471.xml?rskey=IyhfrN&result=8
Variant translations:
Listening not to me but to reason, it is wise to agree that all is one.
Listening not to me but to the Word it is wise to agree that all things are one.
He who hears not me but the logos will say: All is one.
It is wise to hearken, not to me, but to my Word, and to confess that all things are one.
The word translated in these quotes and many others as "The Word" or "Reason", is the greek word λόγος (Logos).
Numbered fragments
Sri Aurobindo
(1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet
The Uttarpara Address (1909)
Context: This is the word that has been put into my mouth to speak to you today. What I intended to speak has been put away from me, and beyond what is given to me I have nothing to say. It is only the word that is put into me that I can speak to you. That word is now finished. I spoke once before with this force in me and I said then that this movement is not a political movement and that nationalism is not politics but a religion, a creed, a faith. I say it again today, but I put it in another way. I say no longer that nationalism is a creed, a religion, a faith; I say that it is the Sanatan Dharma which for us is nationalism. This Hindu nation was born with the Sanatan Dharma, with it it moves and with it it grows. When the Sanatan Dharma declines, then the nation declines, and if the Sanatan Dharma were capable of perishing, with the Sanatan Dharma it would perish.
Donald J. Trump
(1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2016, September, First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)
Gwendolen, Act II
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Richard von Mises
(1883–1953) Austrian physicist and mathematician
Third Lecture, Critical Discussion of the Foundations of Probability, p. 94-95
Probability, Statistics And Truth - Second Revised English Edition - (1957)
