“To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization.”
Thomas Robert Malthus Principles of Political Economy
Book I, Introduction, p. 5
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
“There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge.”
Book I, p. 51.
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Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
Source: The Story of My Life
“O love, o wonder; love new born, new bred,
Now groan, now armed, this champion captive led.”
Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet
Oh meraviglia! Amor, ch'appena è nato,
Già grande vola, e già trionfa armato.
Canto I, stanza 47 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
John Kenneth Galbraith book The New Industrial State
Source: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter VIII, Section 1, p. 91 (1985)
“Is all your knowledge to go so utterly for nothing unless other people know that you possess it?”
Usque adeone<br/>scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter?
Persius (34–62) ancient latin poet
Usque adeone
scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter?
Satire I, line 26.
The Satires
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
1850s, Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society (1859)
Context: I suppose, however, I shall not be mistaken, in assuming as a fact, that the people of Wisconsin prefer free labor, with its natural companion, education. This leads to the further reflection, that no other human occupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought, as agriculture. I know of nothing so pleasant to the mind, as the discovery of anything which is at once new and valuable — nothing which so lightens and sweetens toil, as the hopeful pursuit of such discovery. And how vast, and how varied a field is agriculture, for such discovery. The mind, already trained to thought, in the country school, or higher school, cannot fail to find there an exhaustless source of profitable enjoyment.
