Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 36e
“Reason is a very light rider and easily shook off.”
As quoted in The World's Laconics : Or, The Best Thoughts Of The Best Authors (1827) by Johan TImbs, p. 25
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“The train of history makes sharp turns and those who are not skilled riders fall off the train.”
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
As quoted in Dorothy Healey, California Red: A Life in the American Communist Party (1993), p. 81.
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Variant: "When the train of history makes a sharp turn, said Lenin, the passengers who do not have a good grip on their seats are thrown off." Whittaker Chambers, The Revolt of the Intellectuals, TIME magazine, January 6, 1941.
Ilana Mercer South African writer
" The Declaration of Independence No Longer Expresses the American Mind," http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/07/the_declaration_no_longer_expresses_the_american_mind.htmlAmerican Thinker, July 4, 2017. <br class="br">2010s, 2017
“The significance of a myth is not easily to be pinned on paper by analytical reasoning.”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien book The Monsters and the Critics
"Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" (1936), p. 14
Context: The significance of a myth is not easily to be pinned on paper by analytical reasoning. It is at its best when it is presented by a poet who feels rather than makes explicit what his theme portends; who presents it incarnate in the world of history and geography, as our poet has done. Its defender is thus at a disadvantage: unless he is careful, and speaks in parables, he will kill what he is studying by vivisection, and he will be left with a formal or mechanical allegory, and what is more, probably with one that will not work. For myth is alive at once and in all its parts, and dies before it can be dissected.
Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
“The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god.”
David Zindell (1952) American writer
Source: War in Heaven (1998), P. 175
