Das Zentrum der geistigen Selbstdisziplin als solcher ist in Zersetzung begriffen. Die Tabus, die den geistigen Rang eines Menschen ausmachen, oftmals sedimentierte Erfahrungen und unartikulierte Erkenntnisse, richten sich stets gegen eigene Regungen, die er verdammen lernte, die aber so stark sind, daß nur eine fraglose und unbefragte Instanz ihnen Einhalt gebieten kann. Was fürs Triebleben gilt, gilt fürs geistige nicht minder: der Maler und Komponist, der diese und jene Farbenzusammenstellung oder Akkordverbindung als kitschig sich untersagt, der Schriftsteller, dem sprachliche Konfigurationen als banal oder pedantisch auf die Nerven gehen, reagiert so heftig gegen sie, weil in ihm selber Schichten sind, die es dorthin lockt. Die Absage ans herrschende Unwesen der Kultur setzt voraus, daß man an diesem selber genug teilhat, um es gleichsam in den eigenen Fingern zucken zu fühlen, daß man aber zugleich aus dieser Teilhabe Kräfte zog, sie zu kündigen. Diese Kräfte, die als solche des individuellen Widerstands in Erscheinung treten, sind darum doch keineswegs selber bloß individueller Art. Das intellektuelle Gewissen, in dem sie sich zusammenfassen, hat ein gesellschaftliches Moment so gut wie das moralische Überich. Es bildet sich an einer Vorstellung von der richtigen Gesellschaft und deren Bürgern. Läßt einmal diese Vorstellung nach—und wer könnte noch blind vertrauend ihr sich überlassen—, so verliert der intellektuelle Drang nach unten seine Hemmung, und aller Unrat, den die barbarische Kultur im Individuum zurückgelassen hat, Halbbildung, sich Gehenlassen, plumpe Vertraulichkeit, Ungeschliffenheit, kommt zum Vorschein. Meist rationalisiert es sich auch noch als Humanität, als den Willen, anderen Menschen sich verständlich zu machen, als welterfahrene Verantwortlichkeit. Aber das Opfer der intellektuellen Selbstdisziplin fällt dem, der es auf sich nimmt, viel zu leicht, als daß man ihm glauben dürfte, daß es eines ist.
E. Jephcott, trans. (1974), § 8
Minima Moralia (1951)
Quotes about goodness
page 21
"When I say I'm a Buddhist"[citation needed]
“Wine is good, but water is preferable at table.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), I Philosophy
2000s, 2001, A Great People Has Been Moved to Defend a Great Nation (September 2001)
Sec. 284
The Gay Science (1882)
Interview with Cathleen Decker (5 September 2008) "Before Sarah Palin, the GOP had Dan Quayle", Los Angeles Times
Sample of Bradwardine devotional writing quoted by James Burnes, The Church of England Magazine under the superintendence of clergymen of the United Church of England and Ireland Vol. IV (January to June 1838)
“Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence.”
Letter to Lord Stirling (5 March 1780)
1780s
“Good Christian People, I have not come here to preach a sermon; I have come here to die.”
Before her execution, May 19th, 1536, Blastmilk, "Anne Boleyn: The Midnight Crow, 1501-1536" http://www.blastmilk.com/decollete/tudor-england/anne-boleyn-the-midnight-crow.php, [published on] September 18, 2006
Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Rajoy of Spain After Bilateral Meeting https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/10/remarks-president-obama-and-prime-minister-rajoy-spain-after-bilateral (10 July 2016)
2016
As quoted in [Philip K. Hitti, History of The Arabs, 130]
Babur-Nama, translated into English by A.S. Beveridge, New Delhi reprint, 1979, pp. 572-73
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), I Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“Doing things without giving the impression of suffering is a question of good manners.”
Agnelli: The Rules of the Game, Vanity Fair (1991)
Other
When asked "Given the chance, how would you change the world?" (Independent, 18 March 2005.)
Other quotes
http://www.popmonk.com/actors/leonardo-dicaprio/quotes-leonardo-dicaprio.htm
As quoted in The Writings of Thomas Paine, edited by Moncure D. Conway, vol. 3 (1895), p. 252
1790s, Letter to George Washington (1796)
Press statement as quoted in Countdown with Keith Olbermann (1 August 2008) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26010596/
2008
As quoted in " A Brilliant Madness A Beautiful Madness http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nash/ (2002), PBS TV program; also cited in Doing Psychiatry Wrong: A Critical and Prescriptive Look at a Faltering Profession (2013) by René J. Muller, p. 62
2000s
Said to the press on the flight back from the 2018 Papal visit to the Philippines in response to a question about what he would say to families who had more children than they could afford because the Church forbids artificial contraception. As reported on BBC news http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-30890989 and other outlets. (19 January 2018)
2010s, 2018
Chicago Tribune (21 March 2011) http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-live-0321-jennifer-beals-20110320,0,3798764.column,
Quoted in Survey of Contemporary Literature (1977) by Frank Northen Magill, p. 4263
“"Regression testing"? What's that? If it compiles, it is good; if it boots up, it is perfect.”
1990s, 1995-99
Comments at a campaign rally in Tampa; Florida (20 October 2008) http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2008/10/20/394027.html
2008
“Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.”
Habet aliquid ex iniquo omne magnum exemplum, quod contra singulos, utilitate publica rependitus.
Book XIV, 44
Annals (117)
This is from a letter written to Washington on 9 October 1789 by the synod of the Reformed Dutch Church of North America (image of the letter on the Library of Congress site here http://memory.loc.gov/mss/mgw/mgw2/038/0650049.jpg). Washington quoted the portion in bold in his reply.
Misattributed
Playboy Interview http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/play78.htm (1978)
1910s, Citizenship in a Republic (1910)
1860s, Fourth of July Address to Congress (1861)
At the end of the Civil War, asking that a military band play "Dixie" (10 April 1865) as quoted in Dan Emmett and the Rise of Early Negro Minstrelsy (1962) by Hans Nathan. Variant account: "I have always thought "Dixie" one of the best tunes I have ever heard. Our adversaries over the way attempted to appropriate it, but I insisted yesterday that we fairly captured it... I now request the band to favor me with its performance".
1860s
The Descent of the Dove (1939), Ch. 5
1910s, Address to the Knights of Columbus (1915)
Context: The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic. The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart allegiance, the better it will be for every good American. There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.
“To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.”
Copiare il vero può essere una buona cosa, ma inventare il vero è meglio, molto meglio.
Letter to Clara Maffei, October 20, 1876, cited from James P. Cassaro (ed.) Music, Libraries and the Academy (Middleton, Wisconsin: A-R Editions, 2007) p. 218; translation from the same source.
E. Jephcott, trans., p. 9
Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment] (1944)
BBC Radio Debate on the Existence of God, Russell vs. Copleston (1948)
1940s
“The Great Architect of the universe built it of good stuff.”
Source: Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Ch. XXXI in the French text, Tr. William Butcher (1992)
Of Godliness.
A short Schem of the true Religion
Homilies on the Gospel of Saint John http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/240103.htm, Homily III
Kōnosuke Matsushita in: The Mirror, (1989), Vol. 25, p. 18
“Your right arm is useful in the battle; but when it comes to thinking you need my guidance. You have force without intelligence; while mine is the care for to-morrow. You are a good fighter; but is I who help Atrides select the time of fighting. Your value is in your body only; mine, in mind. And, as much as he who directs the ship surpasses him who only rows it, as much as the general exceeds the common soldier, so much greater am I than you. For in these bodies of ours the heart is of more value than the hand; all our real living is in that.”
Tibi dextera bello
utilis: ingenium est, quod eget moderamine nostro;
tu vires sine mente geris, mihi cura futuri;
tu pugnare potes, pugnandi tempora mecum
eligit Atrides; tu tantum corpore prodes,
nos animo; quantoque ratem qui temperat, anteit
remigis officium, quanto dux milite maior,
tantum ego te supero; nec non in corpore nostro
pectora sunt potiora manu: vigor omnis in illis.
Book XIII, 361–369; translation by Frank Justus Miller https://archive.org/details/metamorphoseswit02oviduoft
Metamorphoses (Transformations)
Source: 1950s, Portraits from Memory and Other Essays (1956), p. 9
As quoted in In Victorian Days and Other Papers (1939) http://books.google.com/books?id=LfIjfuQGwOIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=In+Victorian+days&as_brr=0&cd=1#v=onepage&q=notorious&f=false by Sir David Oswald Hunter-Blair, p. 122
1910s, The New Nationalism (1910)
Canto 1
Phantasmagoria (1869)
Pt. 1, Ch. 10
Disturbing the Universe (1979)
Source: 1930s, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935), Ch. 1: In Praise of Idleness
Source: For Crying Out Loud! The World According to Clarkson Volume Three (2008), p. 1
Quoted in: V. Thomas (2009) The God Dilemma: To Believe Or Not to Believe,.
Inaugural Address (March 5, 1849).
Source: Regards sur le monde actuel [Reflections on the World Today] (1931), p. 156
“Words alone are certain good.”
Source: Crossways (1889), The Song Of The Happy Shepherd, l. 10.
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1846/may/15/corn-importation-bill-adjourned-debate in the House of Commons (15 May 1846).
1840s
What's on Stage http://www.whatsonstage.com, 20 Questions with David Tennant (17 November 2003) http://www.whatsonstage.com/index.php?pg=207&story=E8821069064615
" The Higher Life of American Cities http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/images/research/treditorials/o151.pdf", in The Outlook (21 December 1895), p. 1083-1085
1890s
Edwin Grant Conklin, in: p. 74 Thirteen Americans: their spiritual autobiographies https://archive.org/stream/religionandcivil000911mbp#page/n91/mode/2up Louis Finkelstein (ed.), 1953, p. 74
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (2010), p. 120
How the Jews Created the Comic Book Industry Part I: The Golden Age (1933-1955) Reform Judaism http://reformjudaismmag.net/03fall/comics.shtml (2003)
“We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.”
On Mac OS X's Aqua user interface, as quoted in Fortune magazine (24 January 2000)
2000s
1850s, Speech at Peoria, Illinois (1854)
As quoted by Francis Preston Venable, A Short History of Chemistry (1894) p. 28. https://books.google.com/books?id=fN9YAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA28
"It Could Happen Here - And Did," http://books.google.com/books?id=SxkSdaCoHL8C&pg=PA295&dq=%22arthur+miller%22+%22panic+button%22&ei=E4VoR9-SMI34iwHf9LFo&ie=ISO-8859-1&sig=f0iKJxpOGjd5_Zs83QcNtAWLpH0 New York Times (30 April 1967); also in The Theater Essays of Arthur Miller (1996)
Remarks of President Barack Obama To the People of Israel at Jerusalem International Convention Center in Jerusalem, Israel (21 March 2013)
2013
Charles Eames in a 1952 speech to a national assembly of the AIA; As cited in: Ray Eames http://eamesdesigns.com/library-entry/ray-eames/ at eamesdesigns.com, Accessed April 8, 2014; Charles Eames talks about Ray Eames
On First Principles, Bk. 4, ch. 2, par 16
On First Principles