
13 January 1857 (p. 338)
1831 - 1863, Delacroix' 'Journal' (1847 – 1863)
section 15
The Myth of Modernity (1946)
13 January 1857 (p. 338)
1831 - 1863, Delacroix' 'Journal' (1847 – 1863)
“To me, it's always about quality not quantity.”
Lee explaining why she's not releasing her music "too often" in the show small talk
“Quantity has a quality all its own.”
No evidence that this phrasing is due to Stalin, and it does not appear in English translations of his philosphical works. Earliest English is found in 1979 in US defense industry, presumably defense consultant Thomas A. Callaghan Jr. The connection of sufficient quantitative change leading to qualitative change is found in Marxist philosophy, by Marx and Engels, drawing from Hegelian philosophy and Ancient Greek philosophy. Marx and Engels are quoted by Stalin, but this formulation appears to be a modern American form; see quantity for details.
Stalin may have said that way before World War II, there is evidence in his Russian-language books, for example here http://www.modernlib.ru/books/stalin_iosif_vissarionovich/tom_14/read_16/.
Misattributed
Variant: Quantity is quality.
Source: Re: "Quantity has a quality all its own" source? http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-russia&month=1004&week=a&msg=ljEwsM4dMrpmUGVfI7EGqg, Tim Davenport, h-russia https://networks.h-net.org/h-russia, April 5, 2010
“Wherever there are qualities there are likewise quantities, but not always vice versa.”
Vol. VIII, p. 47ff.
Joannis Kepleri Astronomi Opera Omnia, ed. Christian Frisch (1858)
“Modernity is the most transient of qualities.”
The aesthetics of the A55: Theodore Dalrymple finds that everything built along the A55 since the First World War has been a scar on the landscape and explores why our architecture has been so bad http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/000937.php (May 22, 2006).
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)
“Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.”
Source: Taken Care Of (1965), Ch. 19
“Primitivism has become the vulgar cliche of much modern art and speculation.”
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 77
Alfred Binet (1909/1975, 105-6), as cited in: B.R. Hergenhahn. An Introduction to the History of Psychology 2009. p. 313
Modern ideas about children, 1909/1975