Comment quoted by Matthew Prior in his Life of Burke
Undated
“…my friend Dr. Arno Gruen, author of The Insanity of Normality, has said an interesting thing. He said that culture, in recent decades, has taken on a life of its own, without reference to the people it is supposed to protect.”
My Pilgrim’s Progress (1999)
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As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, iv. 50.
“You’re my best friend, Shmuel,’ he said. ‘My best friend for life.”
Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Andre Breton (Manifesto of Surrealism; 1924)
“However, it has long been said that "my enemy's enemy is my friend.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Letter to William Sotheby (10 September 1802)
Letters
1980s, Simulacra and Simulation (1981)
Un philosophe digne de ce nom n'a jamais dit qu'une seule chose : encore a-t-il plutôt cherché à la dire qu'il ne l'a dite véritablement. Et il n'a dit qu'une seule chose parce qu'il n'a su qu'un seul point : encore fut-ce moins une vision qu'un contact...
"L’intuition philosophique (Philosophical Intuition)" http://obvil.paris-sorbonne.fr/corpus/critique/bergson_pensee/body-5 (10 April 1911); translated by Mabelle L. Andison in: Henri Bergson, The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics, Courier Dover Publications, 2012, p. 91