Cited in: Peter Coad (1992, p. 152) About what happens when one finds a pattern?
The Timeless Way of Building (1979)
“Skepticism is like a microscope whose magnification is constantly increased: the sharp image that one begins with finally dissolves, because it is not possible to see ultimate things: their existence is only to be inferred.”
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Stanisław Lem
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His Master's Voice
Source: His Master's Voice (1968), Ch. 17
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Context: “My dear,
It’s who first thought the thought. You’re searching, Joe,
For things that don’t exist; I mean beginnings.
Ends and beginnings—there are no such things.
There are only middles.
“A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.”
G. K. Chesterton
(1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
Though sometimes misattributed to Chesterton, this is generally attributed to Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, with the first publication of this yet located is in a section of proverbs called "Diamond Dust" in Eliza Cook's Journal, No. 98 (15 March 1851), with the first attribution to Chesterfield as yet located in: Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1862) edited by Henry Southgate.
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“A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.”
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
(1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
Generally attributed to Lord Chesterfield, the first publication of this yet located is in a section of proverbs called "Diamond Dust" in Eliza Cook's Journal, No. 98 (15 March 1851), with the first attribution to Chesterfield as yet located in: Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1862) edited by Henry Southgate
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John F. Kennedy
(1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Speech delivered to the Dail (Parliament of Ireland) (28 June 1963)
1963
“No one likes to be watched constantly by someone he can’t see.”
Source: Mission of Gravity (1954), Chapter 11
Clive Staples Lewis
(1898–1963) Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist
Paraphrased from a letter C. S. Lewis wrote to Mrs. Johnson on March 16, 1955: "A housewife's work [is] surely, in reality, the most important work in the world ... your job is the one for which all others exist", as reported in The Misquotable C.S. Lewis (2018) by William O'Flaherty, p. 63
Misattributed