“It may justly be urged that, properly speaking, what alone has meaning is a sentence.”
Source: Philosophical Papers (1979), p. 56.
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Quote, c. 1910; as cited by de:Wolf-Dieter Dube, in Expressionism; Praeger Publishers, New York, 1973, p. 112
1910 - 1915
“Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and if you speak, speak accordingly.”
Misattributed, Jackson's personal book of maxims
Source: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 4, What Is A Good Sentence?, p. 37
“Properly speaking, a man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognise him.”
Source: 1890s, The Principles of Psychology (1890), Ch.10
“Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.”
These words, which have been widely attributed to Scalia, do not appear in any of his writings or statements. http://www.snopes.com/scalia-death-penalty-quote He nonetheless remarked in Herrera v. Collins (1993, concurring) that state courts had no obligation to review a death sentence on factual innocence grounds, an opinion that he repeated in In re Davis (2009, dissenting).
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“There is, properly speaking, no Misfortune in the world.”
Novalis (1829)
Context: There is, properly speaking, no Misfortune in the world. Happiness and Misfortune stand in continual balance. Every Misfortune is, as it were, the obstruction of a stream, which, after overcoming this obstruction, but bursts through with the greater force.
Writing for the court, Stanley v. Georgia, 394 U.S. 557 (1969)
