“Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.”
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711) French poet and critic
Chaque âge a ses plaisirs, son esprit et ses mœurs.
Canto III, l. 374
The Art of Poetry (1674)
“Every witness has his own way of creeping up on the truth.”
— Ross Macdonald, book Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty (1973)
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“Let each man have the wit to go his own way.”
Unus quisque sua noverit ire via.
Propertius (-47–-16 BC) Latin elegiac poet
II, xxv, 38.
Elegies
Joseph Dietzgen (1828–1888) german philosopher
Letter 2
Letters on Logic: Especially Democratic-Proletarian Logic (1906)
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Interview, The Paris Review (Summer 1956)
“No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit”
Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina
Source: Anna Karenina
“The truth is that I imagined every bit of good fortune that has come my way.”
Scott Adams (1957) cartoonist, writer
Context: Years later, when "Dilbert" was in thousands of newspapers, people often asked me if I ever imagined being so lucky. I usually said no, because that's the answer people expected. The truth is that I imagined every bit of good fortune that has come my way. But in my imagination I also invented a belt that would allow me to fly and had special permission from Congress to urinate like a bird wherever I wanted. I wake up every morning disappointed that I have to wear pants and walk. Imagination has a way of breeding disappointment.
“The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way”
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1940s, State of the Union Address — The Four Freedoms (1941)
Context: In the future days which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
The first is freedom of speech and expression — everywhere in the world.
The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way — everywhere in the world.
The third is freedom from want, which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants — everywhere in the world.
The fourth is freedom from fear, which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor — anywhere in the world.
That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation.
“Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.”
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore