“Skepticism is an exercise in defascination.”
The New Gods (1969)
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Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911–1995Related quotes
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“Their exercises are unbloody battles, and their battles bloody exercises.”
Book 3.5.1, trans. William Whiston
The Jewish War (c. 75 CE)
As quoted in De Natura Deorum by Cicero, ii. 8.; iii. 9.
“I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise.”
As quoted in Four Talks for Bibliophiles (1958) by George Allen, p. 70
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 239
Source: Politics Among Nations (1948), p. 27 (1954 edition).
Context: We must distinguish between military and political power.
Political power is a psychological relation between those who exercise it and those over whom it is exercised. It gives the former control over certain actions of the latter through the influence which the former exert over the latter's minds. That influence may be exerted through orders, threats, persuasion, or a combination of any of these.
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Source Undetermined in Everyone's Mark Twain (1972) compiled by Caroline Thomas Harnsberger, p. 161
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“Poetry is not a metrical exercise.”
An Introduction to English Poetry, Viking Penguin, London 2002 ISBN 0141004398