
“There are two sides to every question.”
As quoted in Lives of Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laërtius, Book IX, Sec. 51
Protagoras, 3.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 9: Uncategorized philosophers and Skeptics
“There are two sides to every question.”
As quoted in Lives of Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laërtius, Book IX, Sec. 51
The Highest of the High (1953)
Context: Consciously or unconsciously, directly or indirectly, each and every creature, each and every human being — in one form or the other — strives to assert individuality. But when eventually man consciously experiences that he is Infinite, Eternal and Indivisible, then he is fully conscious of his individuality as God, and as such experiences Infinite Knowledge, Infinite Power and Infinite Bliss.
“Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted”
Source: 1860s, Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863), Ch.2, p. 72
Context: Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder, if not by himself, to be complete and final, remains in high authority and esteem, it may be for one century, or it may be for twenty: but, as invariably, Time proves each reply to have been a mere approximation to the truth—tolerable chiefly on account of the ignorance of those by whom it was accepted, and wholly intolerable when tested by the larger knowledge of their successors.
[Braque refers to their common years in Paris, c. 1907 - 1912]
Source: posthumous quotes, Braque', (1968), p. 10
Last public speech before his death, Chicago, Illinois (1 May 1861)
1860s
“Work on the one side, the home on the other—they were two walls in the one prison.”
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Three: The House of the Poet
translation from the original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek
version in original Dutch (kort gedicht van Jozef Israëls, in het Nederlands):
Zoo is het
Er hingen eens twee schilderijen,
Juist vlak tegenover elkaar
Regt kleurig en schitterend de eene
En d'ander eenvoudig en waar
** Dat eenvoud en waarheid het kenmerk
Van wetenschap is en van kunst
Och, dat kan het volk niet begrijpen
En [aan] 't klatergoud schonk het zijn gunst.
A short poem of Israëls, written in his letter from The Hague, 13 Dec. 1876 to art-seller Pilgeram & Lefèvre in London; from collection of Fondation Custodia, Institut Neérlandais Paris, input no. 1971-A 506
Quotes of Jozef Israels, 1871 - 1900