“Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor.”
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
The Iliad of Homer, Rendered into English Prose (1898), Book X
“…because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.”
Vintage, p. 41
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes (1965)
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French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarch… 1912–1994Related quotes
“Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor.”
X. 173–174 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“But the razor edge of ridicule is turned by the tough hide of truth.”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
"On Truth" in Damn! A Book of Calumny (1918), p. 53
1910s
Context: The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived. Huxley laughed the devils out of the Gadarene swine. Not the laws of the United States but the mother-in-law joke brought the Mormons to surrender. Not the horror of it but the absurdity of it killed the doctrine of infant damnation. But the razor edge of ridicule is turned by the tough hide of truth. How loudly the barber-surgeons laughed at Huxley—and how vainly! What clown ever brought down the house like Galileo? Or Columbus? Or Darwin?... They are laughing at Nietzsche yet...
“Beauty walks a razor's edge, someday I'll make it mine.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Shelter from the Storm
Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), p. 23
“It is easier to know man in general than to know one man.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Il est plus aisé de connaître l'homme en général que de connaître un homme en particulier.
Variant translation: It is much easier to know men generally, than to know a particular man.
Maxim 436.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Variant: Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.
Source: Lord of Chaos
“Straight edge means I'm drug free, alcohol free, and better than you.”
Phil Brooks (1978) American professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
Catchphrases
Source: Straight Edge significa che sono libero da droghe, libero dall'alcol e migliore di voi]
