“Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean.”
Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society
Source: Jargon der Eigentlichkeit [Jargon of Authenticity] (1964), p. 9
Mark Clifton book They'd Rather Be Right
Source: They'd Rather Be Right (1954), p. 176.
“Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content;
The quiet mind is richer than a crown.”
Robert Greene (dramatist) (1558–1592) English author
Song, "Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content", line 1, from Farewell to Folly (1591); Dyce p. 309.
“5442. We have all forgot more, than we remember.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Edmund Cooper (1926–1982) British writer
Sea-horse in the Sky (1969)
“There aren't six or seven wonders of the world
There is no more than one: it is love.”
Jacques Prevért (1900–1977) French poet, screenwriter
Attributed
“hugest whole creation may be less
incalculable than a single kiss”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
37
73 poems (1963)
“No sooner said than done—so acts your man of worth.”
Dictum factumque facit frux.
Ennius (-239–-169 BC) Roman writer
As quoted by Priscianus in Ars Prisciani, Book VI
“I am less desirous to explain phenomena than to establish their existence.”
Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874) Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist
Preface of M. Quetelet
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
“From now on, Montaigne would live for himself rather than for duty.”
Sarah Bakewell book How to Live
describing Montaigne’s retirement at age 38, p. 24.
How to Live, or, A Life of Montaigne in one Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (2010)
“There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.”
Livy (-59–17 BC) Roman historian
Book XXXIX, sec. 16
History of Rome
“Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.”
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Whether an Aged Man ought to meddle in State Affairs
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The friendship of one wise man is better than the friendship of a host of fools.”
Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
“It’s easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.”
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (January 2, 1894)
Letters
“Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.”
Jacques Maritain (1882–1973) French philosopher
Integral Humanism, (1936, Notre Dame Edition), p. 262.
“Nothing is more stimulating for self-education than working in a new area.”
Eric R. Kandel (1929) American neuropsychiatrist
In Search of Memory (2006)
“It is better to be subject to the Laws under one Master, than to be subservient to many.”
Catherine the Great (1729–1796) Empress of Russia
Proposals for a New Law Code (1768)
“True, it returns ' ' for false, but ' ' is an even more interesting number than 0.”
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
[199707300650.XAA05515@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“Folly is often more cruel in the consequence, than malice can be in the intent.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695) English politician
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
“There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.”
Joanna Russ (1937–2011) American author
Part 4, Chapter 8 (p. 61)
Fiction, The Female Man (1975)
