
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book IV, Chapter I, Sec. 8
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book III, Chapter III, Sec. 11
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book IV, Chapter I, Sec. 8
Odysseus, Book XI, line 846
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)
“A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.”
My Memories of Eighty Years (1922), p. 318
“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.”
Part II, Ch. 8
O Pioneers! (1913)
Letter to Isaac H. Tiffany (4 April 1819)
1810s
Dialogue between Russell and his daughter Katharine, as quoted in My Father – Bertrand Russell (1975)
Attributed from posthumous publications
Variant: The true thoughts that go on inside us are just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of, at most, one tiny little part of us at any given instant.
Source: Oblivion
“Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified