“It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society. The thoughts alone suffice them, without investing itself in the flesh and blood of action.”
Source: The Scarlet Letter
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Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)
Ideas That Kill http://www.city-journal.org/html/10_1_diarist.html (Winter 2000).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)
“The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself.”
Source: The Creative Process, 1958, p. 97 Partly cited in: Daniel C. Schlenof. " 50 Years Ago: Greatest Scientific Discovery is Science Itself http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/50-100-150-scientific-creativity/," in Scientific American, Aug. 18, 2008.
Context: The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing. Like these earlier human creations, science is an attempt to control our surroundings by entering into them and understanding them from inside. And like them, science has surely made a critical step in human development which cannot be reversed. We cannot conceive a future society without science. I have used three words to describe these far - reaching changes : discovery, invention and creation. There are contexts in which one of these words is more appropriate than the others.
“What fools call “wasting time” is most often the best investment.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 24
“He is greatest who is most often in men’s good thoughts.”
Greatness
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy
Our Pride http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/sunmyungmoon81/811213.htm 1981-12-13.
Rogue States (2000).
Quotes 2000s, 2000
Context: Let's go back to our point of departure: the contested issues of freedom and rights, hence sovereignty, insofar as it's to be valued. Do they inhere in persons of flesh and blood or … in abstract constructions like corporations, or capital, or states? In the past century the idea that such entities have special rights, over and above persons, has been strongly advocated. The most prominent examples are.
Amerika-Haus Berlin, George Rickey (1979). George Rickey: Skulpturen, Material, Technik. Nr. 1. p. 37
“From my most unnoticed actions,
my most veiled writing —
from these alone will I be understood.”
Hidden Things
Collected Poems (1992)