
The Temper of Our Time (1967)
Context: The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), Leisure, the Basis of Culture, p. 34
The Temper of Our Time (1967)
Context: The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 28
January 19, 1908
India's Rebirth
Prof. Barus' Retirement dinner speech, Brown University (1926) as quoted by in One of the 999 about to be Forgotten: Memoirs of Carl Barus, 1865-1935 (2005) ed., Axel W.-O. Scmidt.
Context: [L]et me refer to my original work. Naturally, if a student has been hammering away ever since 1979... he must have accumulated a lot of litter, much of which, perhaps, should have long since been swept away. But the fates are not to be bribed either by pother or importunity. Out of 1,000 men who are called, one (probably the ratio is much smaller) is chosen to do glorious scientific work. The others? Their lot is failure. They may be equally or even more industrious, they may have equal or even greater brain power—the other 999 exist merely to make the illustrious one in whom they culminate, possible. After that, the world will say to each in words of poetic brevity: "The man has done his duty, the man can go." And they do, pretty quickly, to a gentler lethe, flowing between the banks of amaranth and asphodel.
Gentlemen, I am one of the 999 about to be forgotten.
“Dancing Is a Perpendicular Expression of a Horizontal Desire.”
attributed by George Melly in 1962 Source: Quote Investigator - Dancing Is a Perpendicular Expression of a Horizontal Desire http://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/09/11/dancing/
Source: "'You': Penn Badgley on Joe's Wild Story in Season 3 and How Season 4 May Be "Quite Different"" in Collider https://collider.com/you-penn-badgley-interview-season-3-netflix-season-4/ (18 October 2021)
Context: I will say that honestly, as an actor ...
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), Leisure, the Basis of Culture, p. 11
“Translates to: for a triangle, the result of a perpendicular with the half-side is the area.”
Source: Arijit Roy “The Enigma of Creation and Destruction”, p. 27 from the Ganitapada, quoted in "The Enigma of Creation and Destruction".