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Irish writer 1962Related quotes
“Appreciating the mind as `ALL SILENCE'. `I AM' is meditation.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p. 413
1980s and later
Context: I am not a "culture critic" because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician, interested in the life of the forms and their surprising modalities. That is why I have no interest in the academic world.
“This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
“a perpetual stranger
am I to the world
I don't understand its language
my silence it can't comprehend”
Bei Dao (1949) contemporary Chinese (PRC) avant garde poet
"A perpetual stranger...", p. 110
Variant translation:
In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence
The August Sleepwalker (1990)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
As quoted in The Civil Sphere (2006) by Jeffrey C. Alexander, p. 388
1960s
“I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.”
G. H. Hardy book A Mathematician's Apology
Source: A Mathematician's Apology (1941)
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Seward, 617
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Johnsoniana