The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight
Source: History and Class Consciousness (1968), p. 64
“Sometimes the greatest things are the most embarrassing.”
Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding
A Little Conserva-tive (1936)
Context: My individualism was a logical extension of the anarchist principle beyond its narrow application to one particular form or mode of constraint upon the individual. The thing that interested me, as it interested Emerson and Whitman, was a general philosophy of life which regards human personality as the greatest and most respect-worthy object in the world, and as a complete end-in-itself; a philosophy, therefore, which disallows its subversion or submergence, whether by force of law or by any other coercive force. I was convinced that human beings do better and are happier when they have the largest possible margin of existence to regulate and dispose of as they please; and hence I believed that society should so manage itself as to leave the individual a maximum of free choice and action, even at a considerable risk of results which from the short-time point of view would be pronounced dangerous.
Book the First, 24:72
1800s, Milton (c. 1809)
“He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.”
Attributed in Lincoln the Lawyer (1906) by Frederick Trevor Hill — Hill noted that he could find no record of whom Lincoln was insulting.
Posthumous attributions
“That air and harmony of shape express,
Fine by degrees, and beautifully less.”
Henry and Emma; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
