Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944) British astrophysicist
Source: The Nature of the Physical World (1928), Ch. 13 Reality
“The substratum of mental activity must be sought only in ponderable matter.”
Gesammelte Mathematische Werke (1876)
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June Downey (1875–1932) American psychologist
August 1909, Popular Science Monthly Volume 75, Article:"The Varificational Factor in Handwriting", p. 151
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“Regulation may be actively sought by an industry, or it may be thrust upon it.”
George Stigler (1911–1991) American economist
Source: "The theory of economic regulation," 1971, p. 3
Context: Regulation may be actively sought by an industry, or it may be thrust upon it. A central thesis of this paper is that, as a rule, regulation is acquired by the industry and is designed and operated primarily for its benefit. There are regulations whose net effects upon the regulated industry are undeniably onerous; a simple example is the differentially heavy taxation of the industry's product (whiskey, playing cards). These onerous regulations, however, are exceptional and can be explained by the same theory that explains beneficial (we may call it "acquired") regulation.
Thomas Jackson (1824–1863) Confederate general
Source: Life and Letters of General Thomas J. Jackson (1891), Ch. 22 : The Last Happy Days — Chancellorsville — 1863, p. 429
Context: We must make this campaign an exceedingly active one. Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength. A defensive campaign can only be made successful by taking the aggressive at the proper time. Napoleon never waited for his adversary to become fully prepared, but struck him the first blow.
“We must love, no matter whom, no matter what, no matter how, provided only we do love.”
Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824–1895) French writer and dramatist, son of the homonym writer and dramatist
Il faut aimer n'importe qui, n'importe quoi, n'importe comment, pourvu qu'on aime.
Les Idées de Madame Aubray (1867), Act I, sc. ii; translation from Louis Proal (trans. A. R. Allinson) Passion and Criminality (London: Imperial Press, 1905) p. 563.
“Maintain the same state of mind in every moment of thought, in every phase of mental activity”
Daman Hongren (601–674) Chinese Buddhist patriarch
Source: Hsiu-hsin yao lun (Treatise on the Essentials of Cultivating the Mind), p. 126.
Context: Do not try to search outside yourself, which [only] leads to the suffering of saṃsāra. Maintain the same state of mind in every moment of thought, in every phase of mental activity.
“It defaces every type of mental activity — history, art, politics, science and social reform.”
Jacques Barzun (1907–2012) Historian
Race: A Study in Modern Superstition (1937)
Context: In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, race was already a weapon in the struggle between absolutism, aristocracy, and the middle class. The warfare spread to the arts and philosophy in the nineteenth century, by which time independent shoots in other cultures had also borne fruit, leaving the grand harvesting on a world-wide scale to our generation.
Viewed in the light of such facts, the race question appears a much bigger affair than a trumped-up excuse for local persecution. It becomes rather a mode of thought endemic in Western civilization. It defaces every type of mental activity — history, art, politics, science and social reform.
Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist
Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter One, p. 7