Aron Ra (1962) Aron Ra is an atheist activist and the host of the Ra-Men Podcast
Patheos, Weighing in on Godzilla http://www.patheos.com/blogs/reasonadvocates/2014/06/08/weighing-in-on-godzilla/ (June 8, 2014)
Aron Ra (1962) Aron Ra is an atheist activist and the host of the Ra-Men Podcast
Patheos, Weighing in on Godzilla http://www.patheos.com/blogs/reasonadvocates/2014/06/08/weighing-in-on-godzilla/ (June 8, 2014)
Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus
"Hope and the Absurd in the work of Franz Kafka"
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)
Fred Astaire (1899–1987) American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer and television presenter
Theatre critic James Agate in a review of a 1933 London performance of Gay Divorce as quoted in Cooke, Alistair. "Fred Astaire Obituary", Letter From America, BBC World Service, June 28, 1987.
Joel Spolsky (1965) American blogger
"Big Macs vs. The Naked Chef" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000024.html
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516–1547) English Earl
Source: Prisoned in Windsor, He Recounteth his Pleasure there Passed, Line 21
Stephen Jay Gould book Wonderful Life
Source: Wonderful Life (1989), p. 52
Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter
and only the bouncers and bartenders would see you. I'm used to it. I'm that tree that falls in the forest. <br class="br"> Clip for Studio4a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6SuvanvZFY&feature=related at youtube.com
“I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.”
Ai Weiwei (1957) Chinese concept artist
“ Artist’s Quotes http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/unilever-series-ai-weiwei/artists-quote.” Excerpted from a conversation with curators Juliet Bingham and Marko Daniel, Beijing, May 31 and June 1, 2010. Tate Museums, UK. <br class="br">2010-, 2010
André Malraux (1901–1976) French novelist, art theorist and politician
Part III, Chapter VI
Les voix du silence [Voices of Silence] (1951)
Ross Macdonald (1915–1983) Novelist
The Goodbye Look (1969)
Paul Carus (1852–1919) American philosopher
"Reflections on Magic Squares" in The Monist, Vol. 16 (1906), p. 139
Ida Friederike Görres (1901–1971) Austrian writer and noble
Broken Lights Letters p. 361.
Saddam Hussein (1937–2006) Iraqi politician and President
in the hands of imperialism
al-Dimuqratiyya Masdar Quwwa li al-Fard wa al-Mujtama, 1977, quoted in Saddam Hussein: a political biography (2002) by Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi.
Frederick William Faber (1814–1863) British hymn writer and theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 386.
Robert Sheckley book The Status Civilization
Source: The Status Civilization (1960), Chapter 5 (p. 26)
Denis Mack Smith (1920–2017) British historian
Source: Mussolini, 1983, p. 41
Jeremy Soule (1975) American composer
Jeremy Soule Interview https://web.archive.org/web/20021026151734/http://www.stratosgroup.com/features/interviews.php?selected=200206jsbh (June 04, 2002). <br class="br">Attributed
John Gray (1948) British philosopher
An Old Chaos: Ichthyophils and Liberals (p. 62)
The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths (2013)
Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) French philosopher (1930-2004)
Plato's Pharmacy, intro
Dissemination (1972)
Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) Russian painter
VIII. Art and Artists
1910 - 1915, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, 1911
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902) British politician and historian
Letter to Mandell Creighton (5 April 1887), published in Historical Essays and Studies, by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton (1907), edited by John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence, Appendix, p. 504; also in Essays on Freedom and Power (1972)
Max Scheler (1874–1928) German philosopher
Source: Das Ressentiment im Aufbau der Moralen (1912), L. Coser, trans. (1973), p. 74
Aphra Behn (1640–1689) British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer
The History of Agnes de Castro, or the Force of Generous Love (1688).
James Clavell book Shōgun
Source: Shōgun (1975), Ch. 1
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
Source: Persons and Places (1944), p. 159
Jack Vance (1916–2013) American mystery and speculative fiction writer
Section 3 (p. 169)
Short fiction, Rumfuddle (1973)
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer
Source: Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996), Chapter 2 (pp. 44-45)
Leila Ben Ali (1956) Wife of Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
23 June, 2012. Ben Ali’s wife blames general for Tunisia ‘coup d’état’ http://www.france24.com/en/20120623-ben-ali-wife-leila-blames-general-tunisia-coup-d-etat-saudi-arabia
Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Sisyphus, as translated by R. G. Bury, and revised by J. Garrett http://www.wku.edu/~jan.garrett/302/critias.htm <br class="br">Variant translation: He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
Cecil Rhodes (1853–1902) British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa
1877 will, quoted in Cecil Rhodes by John Flint
Herman Cain (1945) American writer, businessman and activist
[Tea Party speaker: 'Stupid people' running country, Dayton Daily News, 2010-10-15, Lynn, Hulsey, http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/tea-party-speaker-stupid-people-running-country-977298.html, 2011-10-08]
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) Flemish painter
Quote in a letter to his friend Peiresc, 18 Dec. 1634; as cited by Simon Schrama, in Rembrandt's eyes, Alfred A. Knopf - Borzoi Books, New York 1999, p. 402
1625 - 1640
Aimee Mann (1960) American indie rock singer-songwriter (born 1960)
"Soon Enough" · Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkjIoIhNDVY <br class="br">Song lyrics, Charmer (2012)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
(18th May 1822) Poetic Sketches. Second Series - Sketch the Third. Rosalie
25th May 1822) St. George’s Hospital, Hyde Park Corner see The Improvisatrice (1824
The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822
“The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Leo
1900s, Getting Married (1908)
“5184. To him, that you tell your Secret, you resign your Liberty.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1737) : To whom thy secret thou dost tell, to him thy freedom thou dost sell.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Henry John Stephen Smith (1826–1883) mathematician
As quoted by Alexander Macfarlane, Lectures on Ten British Physicists of the Nineteenth Century (1916) p. 95, https://books.google.com/books?id=43SBAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA95 "Henry John Stephen Smith (1826-1883) A Lecture delivered March 15, 1902"
Masha Gessen (1967) Russian-American journalist and activist
"Putin's Russia: Don't Walk, Don't Eat, and Don't Drink" http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/putins-russia-dont-walk-dont-eat-and-dont-drink?intcid=mod-yml (28 May 2015), The New Yorker.
“To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Simplicity http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21390/Simplicity <br class="br">From the poems written in English
Frederick William Robertson (1816–1853) British writer and theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 437.
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist
Source: Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1971 - 1980, Comment on deviant Dali, les aveux inavouables de Salvador Dali, p. unknown
Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 154
George Steiner (1929–2020) American writer
Source: Real Presences (1989), II: The Broken Contract, Ch. 2 (p. 61).
Michel Foucault book Discipline and Punish
Source: Discipline and Punish (1977), Chapter Three, The Gentle Way in Punishment
“Praise be to you, O hills, that you can breathe
Into our souls the secret of your power!”
Richard Hovey (1864–1900) American writer
"Comrades", p. 49.
Along the Trail (1898)
V.S. Pritchett (1900–1997) British writer and critic
"Rider Haggard: Still Riding", p. 25
The Tale Bearers: English and American Writers (1980)
John Ruysbroeck (1293–1381) Flemish mystic
Evelyn Underhill Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness (1912), p. 433
The Sparkling Stone (c. 1340)
Richard Wurmbrand (1909–2001) Romanian Christian minister of Jewish descent
Source: Tortured For Christ (1967), p. 75.
William Joyce (1906–1946) British fascist and propaganda broadcaster
Broadcast, German European Service in English, 17 September 1944.
Refers to the first attack by the Vergeltungswaffe-1, or "reprisal weapon".
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775–1854) German philosopher (idealism)
Philosophy and Religion 1804)
Edward Heath (1916–2005) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1970–1974)
Remarks to the press after Harold Wilson was hit by eggs thrown by demonstrators on two successive days (1 June 1970), quoted in Edward Heath, The Course of My Life (Hodder and Stoughton, 1998), p. 305.
Leader of the Opposition
“The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.”
Karen Blixen book Last Tales
"The Cardinal's Third Tale"
Last Tales (1957)
Frank Harris (1856–1931) Irish journalist and rogue
Oscar Wilde, letter to More Adey, May 12, 1897, quoted in Hugh Kingsmill Frank Harris (1932) p. 102.
Criticism
Henry James (1843–1916) American novelist, short story author, and literary critic
The Figure in the Carpet http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/fgcpt10h.htm (1896).
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“These are weighty secrets, and we must whisper them.”
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1835–1905) writer
Secrets.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
15 January 1753
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
Renée Vivien (1877–1909) British poet who wrote in the French language
Quoted in Mercure de France, I-XII (1953), trans. Jeannette H. Foster (1977)
Arthur C. Clarke book The City and the Stars
Source: The City and the Stars (1956), Chapter 13 (p. 99)
Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) French sociologist and philosopher
Source: 1980s, The Ecstasy of Communication (1987), p. 73
“To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Simplicity http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21390/Simplicity <br class="br">From the poems written in English
George William Curtis (1824–1892) American writer
1850s, The Present Aspect of the Slavery Question (1859)
Jeremy Corbyn (1949) British Labour Party politician
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1988/jun/24/policing-london in the House of Commons (24 June 1988). <br class="br">1980s
Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881) Swiss philosopher and poet
Review of L'Art Chrétien by Alexis-François Rio in the Bibliothèque Universelle de Genève. (1842)
Journal Intime (1882), Quotes used in the Introduction by Ward
Christopher Pitt (1699–1748) English poet
Richard Maitland, 4th Earl of Lauderdale, The Works of Virgil, Translated Into English Verse (1709), Aeneid, Book VI, lines 328–331, p. 210
Misattributed
Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
[Human gullibility beyond belief,— the “paranormal” in the media, The Sunday Times, 1996-08-25]
John Kenneth Galbraith book The Great Crash, 1929
Chapter VIII https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929, Aftermath II, Section IV, p 154 <br class="br">The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson book When Elephants Weep
Conclusion, pp. 216-217
When Elephants Weep (1994)
Samuel Longfellow (1819–1892) American clergyman
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 544.
David Copperfield (1956) American illusionist
The curtain is lowered and the Statue of Liberty reappears
From "The Magic of David Copperfield V: The Statue of Liberty Disappears" (April 8th, 1983)
Heather Couper (1949) astronomer
in "Who Discovered the Galaxy - Presidential Address – 1985" http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1986JBAA...96..284C, Heather Couper, British Astron. Assoc. Journal V. 96, No. 5 (1986), p. 293, Bibliographic Code: 1986JBAA...96..284C