Pt. 2, Ch. 7
Papa Hemingway (1966)
Essay on the Principle of Population (1798; rev. through 1826)
“With the increase of wealth the mania of covetousness increases.”
Book VII Chapter VII
Institutes of the Coenobia (c. 420 AD)
“One's ridiculousness increases in proportion as one denies it.”
Letter 141: La Marquise de Merteuil to le Vicomte de Valmont. Trans. Richard Aldington (1924). http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Liaisons_dangereuses_-_Lettre_141
Les liaisons dangereuses (1782)
“In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.”
Source: The Communist Manifesto
“Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.”
Pt. 1, Ch. 3
Papa Hemingway (1966)
Source: "Evolutionary Socialism" (1899) https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bernstein/works/1899/evsoc/index.htm, Chapter II, The Economic Development of Modern Society
X magazine (1959-62)
Context: There is a sense, and a very exciting sense, in which art is moral. When Stendhal says a good picture is nothing but a construction in ethics, one recognises a truth about art which opens up vistas that are at the same time liberating and terrifying. The ethics of art are terrifying because real art by increasing our knowledge of ourselves increases in exactly the same proportion the ethical commitment.
“Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.”
Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. IV (1928)
