Henri Poincaré book Science and Hypothesis
Douter de tout ou tout croire, ce sont deux solutions également commodes, qui l'une et l'autre nous dispensent de réfléchir.
Preface, Dover abridged edition (1952), p. xxii
Science and Hypothesis (1901)
Henri Poincaré book Science and Hypothesis
Douter de tout ou tout croire, ce sont deux solutions également commodes, qui l'une et l'autre nous dispensent de réfléchir.
Preface, Dover abridged edition (1952), p. xxii
Science and Hypothesis (1901)
Karl Marx book Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Private Property and Communism, p. 43.
Paris Manuscripts (1844)
Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835) German (Prussian) philosopher, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the University of Berlin
The Limits of State Action (1792)
“How dismal the necessity of birth! how miserable the necessity of living! how hard the necessity of death!”
O neccessitas abiecta nascendi, vivendi misera dura moriendi.
Sidonius Apollinaris (430–489) Gaulish poet, aristocrat and bishop
Lib. 8, Ep. 11, sect. 4; vol. 2, p. 463.
Epistularum
“Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity.”
W. H. Auden book Forewords and Afterwords
"A Poet of the Actual", p. 266
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
Context: Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.
“Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.”
Neal A. Maxwell (1926–2004) Mormon leader
“Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.”
Jonathan Franzen book The Corrections
Source: The Corrections
William John Macquorn Rankine (1820–1872) civil engineer
p, 125
"On the Harmony of Theory and Practice in Mechanics" (Jan. 3, 1856)