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"Don't imagine that for years on end you can make yourself the boot-licking
propagandist of the Soviet regime or any other regime, and then suddenly
return to mental decency.  Once a whore, always a whore." - George Orwell

"Common sense should not be confused with {\it common opinions}, namely the
beliefs we can readily formulate when asked: these are often false
overgeneralisations or merely the result of prejudice.  Common sense
is a rich and profound store of information, not about laws, but about
what people are capable of doing, thinking or experiencing.  But common
sense, like our knowledge of the grammar of our native language, is hard
to get at and articulate, which is one reason why so much of philosophy,
psychology and social science is vapid, or simply false". - Aaron
Sloman in the introduction to his book 
"The Computer Revolution in Philosophy".

"But the height of audacity in serving up pure nonsense, in stringing
together senseless and extravagant mazes of words, such as had previously
been known only in madhouses, was finally reached in Hegel, and became the
instrument of the most bare-faced general mystification that has ever
taken place, with a result that will appear fabulous to posterity, and
will remain as a monument to German stupidity". - Schopenhauer

Schopenhauer was a degenerate, unthinking, unknowing, nonsense scribbling
philosopher, whose understanding consisted solely of empty, verbal trash.
- Ludwig Boltzmann

"Life is not made for happiness but for achievement" Durant - The story of
Philosophy, p. 297, paraphrasing Hegel.

"When we read, another person thinks for us; we merely repeat his mental
process.... So it comes about that if anyone spends his whole day
in reading, ... he gradually loses the capacity for thinking. - Schopenhauer.
II, 254 Essays, Books and Reading; Counsels and Maxims p.21

"As it stands, we have on our hands a generation of students so harried
by today's pop ethics that many of the best consider careers in a
regulatory bureaucracy or a romantic retreat to the design of small
tools as the only remaining respectable form of scientific or technological
endeavor". - Richard L. Meehan in Science 11 May 1979.
 
"So, when on one side you hoist Locke's head, you go over
that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in
Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor
plight.  Thus, some minds for ever keep trimming
boat.  Oh, ye foolish!  throw all these thunderheads
overboard, and then you will float light and right".
- Herman Mellville, Moby Dick, chapter 73, near the end

"The same theory and methods that yielded Freud's most compelling
analytic insights underlie the analyst Abrahamsen's (1977) "discovery"
about Richard Nixon.  The ten year old Nixon apparently was proud
of his ability to mash potatoes so smoothly that there were no lumps.
Potatoes, Abrahamsen solemnly observes, were a substitute for people."
Nisbett and Ross, Human Inference, p.243.

"A major problem with the assumption (even in Freud's hands, but
especially in the hands of many followers) is the uncertainty of
criteria for determining when it is the patient's associative
networks that have been laid bare and when it is the analyst's."
ibid.

"Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.  The
Unconscious by definition is what you aren't conscious of.  But
the Analysts already know what's in it.  They should, because
they put it all in beforehand.  It's like an Easter Egg hunt.
You hide the eggs and then you find 'em.  That's on the up and up.
But Analysis ain't". - Saul Bellow in The Dean's December, p. 298

"I beeseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you
may be mistaken". - Cromwell.  Letter to the General Assembly of
the Church of Scotland, 3 Aug. 1650

"Toward a better world I contribute my modest smidgin;
I eat the squab, lest it become a pigeon." - Ogden Nash

"I would eat my own father with such a sauce". - Grimod de la Reymiere,
cited in Brillat-Savarin p. xvii.

"Oh! you know, Spencer's idea of a tragedy is a deduction killed
by a fact." - T.H. Huxley, as quoted in Spencer's autobiography

"The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis
by an ugly fact". - T.H. Huxley, Collected essays viii. Biogenesis and
Abiogenesis.

In a discussion which took place at G. H. Lewes's, somebody
asserted that everyone had written a tragedy.  Lewes agreed with the
statement, saying, `Yes, everyone --- even Herbert Spencer.' --- `Ah',
interposed Huxley, `I know what the catastrophe would be --- an
induction killed by a fact.' - Oxford book of literary anecdotes
by James Sutherland. taken from Walter Jerrold, A Book of Famous Wits
Methuen 1912.

There once was a man who said "God
Must think it exceedingly odd
  If he finds that this tree
  Continues to be
When there's no one about in the Quad" - Ronald Knox

Dear Sir, Your astonishment's odd:
I am always about in the Quad.
  And that's why the tree
  Will continue to be
Since observed by
	Yours Faithfully,
		God. - anonymous

Cet animal est tres mechant,
Quand on l'attaque il se defend.

Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had Tiberius been a cat.  Poor Mathias, l.40 - Matthew Arnold

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. - Proverbs i,17

He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. - Proverbs xi. 14

Where there is no vision, the people perish. - Proverbs xxix. 18

He that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow. - Ecclesiastes i.18

Wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. - Ecclesiastes ii.13

Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these?
for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this. - Ecclesiastes vii. 10

There is no discharge in that war. - Ecclesiastes viii. 8

The liberal deviseth liberal things. - Isaiah xxxii.8

Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. - Isaiah xxxv.3

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. - Lamentations i.27

Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shewed unto thee
than men understand. - Ecclesiasticus iii.23

If thou hast heard a word, let it die with thee; and be bold, it will not
burst thee. - Ecclesiasticus xix.10

How can he get wisdom ... whose talk is of bullocks. - Ecclesiasticus xxxviii.25

The whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and
perished in the waters. - Matthew viii.32

Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows. - Matthew ix.31

They be blind leaders of the blind.  And if the blind lead the blind, both
shall fall into the ditch. - Matthew xiii.14

I did not come to call the righteous but sinners. - Mark 2:17

When there is a corpse, there the vultures will flock. - Luke 18:37

Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge. - Luke xi.52

Certain lewd fellows of the baser sort. - The Acts of the Apostles xvii.5

What will this babbler say. - The Acts of the Apostles xvii.18

Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this
incription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.  Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him
I declare unto you. - The Acts of the Apostles xvii.22

Some therefore cried one thing, and some another; for the assembly was
confused; and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together.
- Acts of the Apostles xix.32

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against
spiritual wickedness in high places. - Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians iv.12


How small of all that human hearts endure
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. - Samuel Johnson
Still to ourselves in every place consigned,
 we make or find:
With secret course, which no loud storms annoy,
Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. - Lines added to Goldsmith's
'Traveller'

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are
supplied, must admit those of fancy. - Samuel Johnson

They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog - keeps him
from broodin' over bein a dog, mebbe. David Harum, ch. 32 - Edward Noyes
Westcott.

Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,
But - why did you kick me downstairs? - An expostulation - Isaac Bickerstaff

Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry.  Oliver's advice
Valentine Blacker

*
The corn was springing fresh and green,
And the lark sang loud and high,
And the red was in your lip, Mary,
The love-light in your eye.

*
They say there's bread and work for all,
And the sun shines always there:
But I'll not forget old Ireland,
Were it fifty times as fair.
- Lament of the Irish Emigrant - Helen Selina Blackwood, Lady Dufferin

Your levellers wish to level ⊗down as far as themselves; but they cannot
bear levelling ⊗up to themselves. - Samuel Johnson in Boswell's life , p. 448

We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that
society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days.
But so said all before us, and with just as much apparent reason ...
On what principle is it that, when we see nothing but improvement
behind us, we are to expect nothing but deterioration before us.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1830 in Edinburgh Review.

Those who compare the age on which their lot has fallen with a golden
age which exists only in their imagination may talk of degeneracy
and decay: but no man who is correctly informed as to the past will
be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present. -
Lord Macaulay, History of England, Purpose section.

But the experience of many ages proves that men may be ready to fight
to the death, and to persecute without pity, for a religion whose
creed they do not understand, and whose precepts they habitually
disobey. - Macaulay, p.61

We have a saying in the lab that the difficulty of a project goes from
the Nobel-Prize level to the master's-thesis level in ten years!
Sydney Brenner as quoted by Horace Judson on p. 208 of "The Eighth Day
of Creation".

The world has not promised anything to anybody. - Moroccan proverb

A man said to the Universe:
`Sir, I exist.'
`However', replied the Universe,
`The fact has not instilled in me a
sense of obligation'
- Stephen Crane

He who has money can eat sherbet in hell. - Lebanese proverb.
We traded in shrouds, people stopped dying.

The drowning man is not troubled by rain. - Persian proverb.

Auf said on the authority of Hasan: "The feet of a son of Adam will
not stir [from the place of judgment] until he be asked of three
things - his youth, how he wore it away; his life, how he passed it;
and his wealth, whence he got it and on what he spent it". -
Al-Jahiz: Clever sayings - reprinted in "Anthology of Islamic
Literature" edited by James Kritzeck.

A local proverb: when you buy your slave
Buy a stick too, and teach him to behave. - Al Mutanabbi: Lauds - Kritzeck,107

Unbroken drive even for welfare is only warfare. - Al Mutanabbi p.

Now this religion happens to prevail
Until by that one it is overthrown, -
Because men dare not live with men alone,
But always with another fairy tale.
-Al Maari, about 1040, p. 122 Kritzeck

	The shooting star
The watch star saw a devil-spy, that came
	On evil work,
  At heaven's gate lurk
And leapt against him in a path of flame;
 - Ibn Sara, Kritzeck, p. 137

"If, in studying his material, the author had picked up a little of
von Neumann's clarity of thought and a little of Wiener's kindness,
this would have been a better book. - Rudolph Peierl in a review
of Steve Heims's John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener - New York Review,
1982 Feb 18.

"In M_, an important town in northern Italy, the widowed Marquise of O_,
a lady of unblemished reputation and the mother of several well-brought-up
children, inserted the following announcement in the newspapers: that
she had, without knowledge of the cause, come to find herself in a certain
situation; that she would like the father of the child she was expecting
to disclose his identity to her; and that she was resolved, out of
consideration for her family, to marry him." - Heinrich von Kleist in
"The Marquise of O_".

Following is quoted in "STANDING OVATION OR POLITE APPLAUSE?" a
book on (obviously) public speaking from St George Press.

Classified advertisement appearing in London papers in 1900:

"MEN WANTED FOR HAZARDOUS Journey.  Small wages, bitter cold,
long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return
doubtful. Honor and recognition in case of success.
		-- Ernest Shackleton"

Shackleton commented later, "It seemed as though all the men of
Great Britain were determined to accompany me, the response was
so overwhelming."

    ``In the future we can expect great difficulties to be faced by
Marxist theory in trying to explain the reasons for wars between
socialist countries.''
Mensur Ibrahimpasic, one of the party's leading theorists in
Socijalizam, an organ of the ruling League of Communists of
Yugoslavia (LCY), from news story, February 1982.

"I am the Golux," said the Golux proudly, "the only Golux in the world,
and not a mere device." - James Thurber in "The thirteen clocks".

"Your job isn't to fight alligators; it's to drain the swamp". -

"The heart's grown brutal from the fare. ... More substance in
our enmities/ Than in our love." - Yeats as cited in Irving Howe's
"A Margin of Hope", p. 199

"If there were fewer fools, knaves would starve." - cited by Isaac
Asimov in his introduction to Randi's Flim-flam.

"There's no drama in a discussion that goes "defenders of X believe Y" --
it's like watching people watch TV."  - levitt@mit-oz, 1983 feb 1

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities".
- Voltaire.

Celui qui peut vous faire croire des absurdites peut vous faire commettre
des atrocites. - Voltaire, Lettres Philosophiques - as recalled by Clio Dorr.

"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh
at them in our turn?" - Jane Austen's Mr. Bennet.

You ought certainly to forgive them as a christian, but never to admit
them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your
hearing. - Pride and Prejudice

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though
not in principle. [Mr. Darcy]

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession
of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.  Pride and Prejudice, ch. 1
 - Jane Austen

Houses are built to live in and not to look on; therefore let use be
preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.
 - Francis Bacon.

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are
all innovations, which are the births of time.
 - Francis Bacon

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time
is the greatest innovator. - Bacon

The speaking in a peretual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love. - Bacon

Oxford is on the whole more attractive than cambridge to the
ordinary visitor; ant the traveller is therefore recommended
to visit Cambridge first, or omit it altogether if he cannot
visit both. - Baedeker's Great Britain, 1887.

"On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to
speak one's mind.  It becomes a pleasure." - Oscar Wilde, The Importance
of being Earnest.

"Please do not shoot the piano player.  He is doing his best."  Oscar Wilde,
Impressions of America.

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it". - Oscar Wilde
in Sebastian Melmoth and also in Oscariana.

*** "Is there a man with soul so dead who can read about the death
of little Nell without bursting out laughing". - Oscar Wilde, but
this is approximate.

*
"And this is good old Boston
  The home of the bean and the cod,
Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots,
  And the Cabots talk only to God.
- John Collins Bossidy, on the Aristocracy of Harvard.

"The rain it raineth on the just
  And also on the unjust fella
But chiefly on the just, because
  The unjust steals the just's umbrella".
- Walter Sichel, Sands of Time.

"John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring,
Mogul, and Mugwump of the final plot." - New York Tribune, 1877 Feb 16.

"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty
land will never be purged away but with blood"? - John Brown, 1859 Dec 2.

"I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof; "tis the very
disgrace and ignominy of our natures". - Sir Thomas Browne, The garden
of Cyrus.

*
"Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note
   As his corse to the rampart we hurried.
We buried him darkly at the dead of night,
  The sods with our bayonets turning.
But he lay like a warrior taking his rest
  With his (military) cloak around him.
Few and short were the prayers we said,
  And we spoke not a word of sorrow;
But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead
  And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone -
  But we left him alone with his glory.
- Charles Wolfe, The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna.

*
Oh, wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
	And foolish notion:
What airs in dress an 'gait wad lea'e us,
	And e'en Devotion!
- Robert Burns, To a Louse

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God,
they terrify me. - Duke of Wellington

The preaching man's immense stupidity. Christmas eve - Robert Browning

In the natural fog of the good man's mind. - Robert Browning, Christmas Eve.

You should not take a fellow eight years old
And make him swear to never kiss the girls.
- Robert Browning, Fra Lippo Lippi.

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first fine careless rapture.
- Robert Browning, Home thoughts from abroad.

To dry one's eyes and laugh at fall,
And, baffled, get up and begin again.
- Robert Browning, Life in a Love.

*
Just for a handful of silver he left us,
Just for a riband to stick in his coat.
- Robert Browning, The Lost Leader.

	Progress is
The law of life, man is not man as yet.
- Robert Browning, Paracelsus.

	It is the glory and good of Art,
That Art remains the one way possible
Of speaking truths, to mouths like mine at least.
- Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book, bk. xii, l. 842.

While still a child
Nor yet a fool to fame
I lisp'd in numbers
For the numbers came
- Alexander Pope, Epistle to Arbuthnot
cited by M(ichael?) Conalogue

What higher nervous systems must do is determined by the information-processing
problems they must solve. - David Marr

    ''The central committee's order is given.
    ''The central committee's order is complied with.''
- Bernard Coard, 1983 November
- see coard.ns[f83,jmc]

Actually, the main point that I made was "There are fundamental
limitations to the use of logic as a programming language."
Mathematical logic has an important place in our Artificial
Intelligence armamentarium.  But it's not the whole show.
- Carl Hewitt, Limitations of Logic in phil-sci discussion, 1983 Nov 23

The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please;
we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
- Edmund Burke as cited by George Will

Writers are the engineers of human souls. - J. Stalin

Truth will not afford sufficient food for their vanity, so they have
betaken themselves to error.  Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield
such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
- Samuel Johnson as quoted by T. John Jamieson in American Spectator

"The people of the antipodes, gazing at the moon when for us it is only
a small crescent, remark, 'What a splendid brightness!  It's nearly full
moon'" - Stendhal in Memoirs of an Egotist, p. 92, Noonday Press.

"Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres". - Julius Caesar.

Hard pounding this, gentlemen; let's see who will pound longest. -
Wellington at Waterloo.

Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out. - Edmund Burke

It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers
for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. - Edmund Burke

Tyrants seldom want pretexts. - Edmund Burke

The coquetry of public opinion, which has her caprices, must have
her way. - Edmund Burke

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist. - Edmund Burke

You can't walk on water with feet of clay and not lose stature
- Andrew Peacock (leader of Australian Liberal Party, 1984 December)

In Prussia everyone must get to Heaven in his own way. - Frederick
the Great as quoted by Churchill, History of the English Speaking
Peoples, vol. 2, p.338.

Everybody has a right to go to hell in his own way.
- Western saying - look for source.

An optimist is a guy (bug) that has never had much experience.
Don Marquis. (an ambiguous simple substitution cipher).  The only
other I know is "Le prisonnier et mort (fort), il n'a rien dit."

He had not evolved to the stage of moral development at which
hypocrisy is possible - Randall Jarrell in Pictures from an
Institution.

There is no hard-and-fast line between inventions and improvements.
In fact, the list below consists almost entirely of improvements,
not first fulfilments of archetypal wishes such as the first telephone
or the first flying machine was.  This is due not merely to the lack
of imagination of the author and his sources, but mainly to the
exhaustion of primitive desires by past inventions.  There remain
some primitive wishes such as ESP (Extra-sensory perception, for
direct communication from mind to mind), telekinetics (moving objects
by wishing), the time machine, antigravitics, and super-photonic
speed (breaking through the light velocity barrier), but on all
present evidence these will remain science fiction --- until
even SF becomes tired of them. - Denis Gabor in "Innovations", p. 12.

The vagaries of German policy are such that we cannot pretend to follow
them.  It is useless to look for profundity where, in all likelihood,
there is only pedantry, or for a tangible object in what may be only
a desire to carry out some dreamy historical notion.  Were the ways of
the Germans like our ways --- were they governed by practical statesmen
instead of by martinets and sophists  --- we should fancy they had some
far-seen end in view ... .  But, knowing what they are, we only see in
their conduct another instance of that weakness and perversity which
has brought on them so many misfortunes.  - the Times of London in 1860
as cited in Gordon Craig's The Germans, p. 15.

If, on seeing some of the new paintings, sculpture, dances or films,
you are bored, probably you were intended to be.  Boring the public
is one way of testing its commitment.  - Barbara Rose quoted by
Hilton Kramer quoted by Nathan Glazer in a 1985 Nov 4 NYT review
of Kramer's Revenge of the Philistines.  It wasn't clear whether this
was intended ironically.

If there's another world, he lives in bliss;
If there is none, he made the best of this.
- Robert Burns, On a Friend, Epitaph on Wm. Muir

But human bodies are sic fools,
For a' their colleges and schools,
That when nae real ills perplex them,
They mak enow themsels to vex them.
- Robert Burns, The Twa Dogs, l. 195

Some eminent military men, exhilarated perhaps by a short immersion
in matters scientific, have publicly asserted that we are [interested
in high-trajectory  guided missiles spanning thousands of miles].  We
have been regaled by scary articles ... we even have the exposition
of missiles fired so fast that they leave the earth and proceed around
it as satellites, like the moon, for some vaguely specificied military
purpose. - Vannevar Bush, 1949, as quoted by Angelo Codevilla
in Commentary 1986 April p. 68.

Controversy is a Civill Warr with the pen which pulls out the sorde
soon afterwards". - the Earl of Newcastle quoted in Leviathan and
the Air-Pump. Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life. Steven Shapin
and Simon Schaffer.  Princeton 1985.

In heaven, the cooks are French, the police are English, the mechanics
are German, the lovers are Italian, and everything is organized by
the Swiss.  In hell, the cooks are English, the police are German,
the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss and everything is
organized by the Italians.  - old, though the present version is
by Lars-Erik Wiberg and quoted in National Review 1986 July 4.

The grand leap of the Whale up the Falls of Niagara is esteemed, by all
who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles of Nature.
- Benj. Franklin.

A.P. 1986 August 7
    Joseph Rauh, speaking for the Americans For Democratic Action, said
Scalia could shift the high court to the right.
    ''Judge Scalia has ice water in his veins, when the Supreme Court
really ought to have a feeling of compassion,'' Rauh said. ''He makes
jokes about things that we believe in deeply. He laughs at
affirmative action.''

a047  0304  04 Jul 86
BC-Liberty Essay-Text,0208
11-Year-Old's Essay on Statue of Liberty
    NEW YORK (AP) - Following is the text of the essay titled ''Our
Statue: Teacher of Liberty'' written by 11-year-old Hue Cao of Hawaii
for the Christa McAuliffe Liberty Essay Contest:
    ''I think the Statue of Liberty is the greatest symbol of freedom in
the world.
    ''My family and I are from Vietnam. After the war ended, the
Communists took over and they were very cruel, stern and
ill-tempered. They took away our freedom, and worst of all, they
could kill anyone. We had a very hard life under them.
    ''We wanted to live in America, a land where there is liberty and
justice. Everytime we saw a picture of the Statue of Liberty, my
mother would tell us that SHE is America. America is a place that
lends a hand to those in need. The Americans care for all people,
from hopeless to homeless people. After we arrived in America, we
promised our mother to love, care and protect the Statue of Liberty.
    ''In conclusion, I would like to say that America is truly my home.
I shall live in this country forever, because this nation has given
my family a brand new life.''

For what is worth in anything,
But so much money as 'twill bring.
- Samuel Butler (1612-1680), Hudibras pt. i, c. 1, l. 465

Learning, that cobweb of the brain,
Profane, erroneous and vain.
- Ib. l. 1339

Both parties joined to do their best
To damn the public interest.
- Hudibras, pt. ii,c.2 l. 147

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902) Note Books, Life, ix

I am very certain that his wishes & efforts for his party very frequently
prevent him from doing that which is best for the Country; & induce him
to take up the cause of foreign powers against Britain, because the
cause of Britain is managed by his opponents. - Wellington
Raglan MSS, No 25, 22 October 1809
[part to be found in Bret-James pp 173-4] -cited in Wellington: Years
of the Sword by Elizabeth Longford

O my friend, if we, leaving this war, could escape from age and death,
I should not be here fighting in the van; but now, since many are the
modes of death impending over us which no man can hope to shun, let us press
on and give renown to other men or win it for ourselves.  Sarpedon in
the Iliad.

Nobody argues that the art of navigation is not founded on astronomy
because sailors cannot wait to calculate the Nautical Almanac.  Being
rational creatures they go to sea with it already calculated; and all
rational creatures go out upon the sea of life with their minds made
up on the common questions of right and wrong ... - John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism.

Let's wait and see what the U.N. does. - Moshe Dayan, June 5, 1967

Much hath been done, but more remains to do ---
Their galleys blaze --- why not their city too?
Byron, The Corsair, c. I. viii

There was a laughing devil in his sneer. Ib. ix

What men call gallantry, and gods adultery,
Is much more common where the climate's sultry.
Byron, Don Juan c.I dedication lxiii

Christians have burnt each other quite persuaded
The all the Apostles would have done as they did.
Ib. lxxxiii

A little still she strove, and much repented,
And whispering 'I will ne'er consent' consented.
Ib cxvii

So for a good old gentlemanly vice,
I think I must take up with avarice.
Ib. c. II. xxxiv

*
He was the mildest manner'd man
That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat,
With such true breeding of a gentleman,
You never could divine his real thought.
ib. c. III xli

With just enough learning to misquote.
Byron, English Bards and Scotch reviewers, l. 66

Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story;
The days of our youth are the days of our glory;
And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty
Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.
Byron, Stanzas written on the road between Florence and Pisa

Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!
Would that the Roman people had but one neck!
Suetonius, Life of Caligula, 30

*
There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin.
Thomas Campbell - Poor Exile of Erin

*
He sang the bold anthem of `Erin go bragh'.
ibid.

Il y a en Angleterre soizante sectes religieuses differentes, et une
seule sauce. - Francesco Caraccioli

The folly of that impossible precept, `Know thyself';
till it be translated into this partially possible one,
'Know what thou canst work at'.
Carlyle, Past and Present ch. 7

But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day,
If your Snark be a Boojum! For then
You will softly and suddenly vanish away,
And never be met with again!
Lewis Carroll Fit. 3 The Baker's Tale

A private grievance is never so dangerous as when it can be identified
with a matter of principle. - J. M. Thompson, cited. in The New KGB by
Corson and Crowley

Los buenos pinores imitan la naturaleza, pero los malos la vomitan.
Good painters imitate nature, bad ones vomit it. - Cervantes
El Licenciado Vidreiera

For the great Gaels of Ireland
Are the men that God made mad
For all their wars are merry
And all their songs are sad.
- Gilbert Chesterton, Ballad of the White Horse

And they think we're burning witches when we're only burning weeds.
- Chesterton, Me Heart


He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth will proceed
by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end by
loving himself better than all. - Coleridge, Aids to Reflection:
Moral and Religious Aphorisms.

My father was an eminent button maker - but I had a soul above buttons -
I panted for a liberal profession. - George Colman, Sylvester Daggerwood, I.x.

Examinations are formidable, even to the best prepared, for the greatest
fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. Charles Colton,
Lacon vol. i, No. 322.

Neither let her take thee with her eyelids. - Proverbs vi,25

But soon as e'er the beauteous idiot spoke,
Forth from her coral lips such folly broke,
Like balm the trickling nonsense heal'd my wound,
And what her eyes enthral'd, her tongue unbound.
William Congreve, Lesbia

Bilbo's the word, and slaughter will ensue.
- Congreve, The Old Bachelor

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon
a monkey without very mortifying reflections.
 - Congreve, letter to Dennis

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie. - J. A. Schumpeter
History of Economic Analysis, p. 43.

``All philosophers, of every school, imagine that causation is one
of the fundamental axioms or postulates of science, yet, oddly enough,
in advanced sciences such as gravitational astronomy, the word `cause'
never occurs ... The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes
muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the
monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm $ldots$.''
--- B. Russell, On the Notion of Cause, Proceedings of the Aristotelian 
 Society, 13 (1913), pp. 1-26.
Text actually reproduced from:
P. Suppes, ``A Probabilistic Account of Causation,''
 Acta Philosophica Fennica, Fasc. XXIV, North Holland, 1970.
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One need not be surprised at our ignorance of things that
happened in the past ... .  If you think about it carefully,
you will find we do not have any true information about the
present or about the things that happen today in  our own city.
- Sr. Francesco Guicciardini, Florentine statesman

Fang Lizhi, an astrophysicist who headed the country's
prestigious University of Science and Technology in
Hefei until he was summarily fired last winter for
supporting college students' calls for greater
democracy, explained the problem in an interview
published in the West German news magazine Der Spiegel.

"In China, the party does not want to manage only politics.  It wants to
control everything, including the way of life and the thoughts of the
people.  Today, factories are being managed by managers, but the party
cadres keep wielding the power.  Peasants enjoy the free-market system,
but the cadres tell them: 'You still need our rubber stamp, you still
have to buy us off!'  There lies the root of the new corruption.  In
order to create a true economic democracy in China, one ought to abolish
political controls.  That is exactly what the party fears most."
- from article by Edward A. Gargan, NYT 1987 Nov 1

Those who have been intoxicated with power, and have derived any
kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, can never
willingly abandon it. - Edmund Burke

Never interrupt an enemy while he is making a mistake. - Napoleon

He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever
met. - A. Lincoln

Pernicious weed!  Whose scent the fair annoys,
Unfriendly to society's chief joys,
The worst effect is banishing for hours
The sex whose presence civilizes ours.
- William Cowper, Conversation l. 284

In Kohln, a town of monks and bones,
And pavements fang'd with murderous stones
And rags, and hags, and hideous wenches;
I counted two and seventy stenches,
All well defined, and several stinks!
Ye Nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks,
The river Rhine, it is well known,
Doth wash your city of Cologne;
But tell me Nymphs, what power divine
Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834, Cologne

He saw a lawyer killing a viper
  On a dunghill hard by his own stable;
And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind
  Of Cain and his brother Abel.
- Coleridge, The Devil's Thoughts.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing
Did certain persons die before they sing.
- Coleridge,  Epigram on a Volunteer Singer

He soon replied - I do admire
  Of womankind but one,
And you are she, my dearest dear,
  Therefore, it shall be done.
- Cowper, John Gilpin

'Twas for your pleasure you came here,
  You shall go back for mine.
- Cowper, John Gilpin

Beware of desp'rate steps.  The darkest day
(Live till to-morrow) will have pass'd away.
- Cowper, The Needless Alarm

Posterity will ne'er survey
A nobler grave than this.
Here lie the bones of Castlereagh.
Stop, traveller, and piss.
- Byron

I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays.  That is
not necessary.  If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can
guarantee the results. - Shaw

An actor's success has the life expectancy of a small boy about to
look into a gas tank with a lighted match. - Fred Allen

Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an
altruistic motive.  Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the
carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism. - Ayn Rand

Archbishop: a Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that
attained by Christ. - Mencken

He is a sheep in sheep's clothing. - Churchill (about Atlee)

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows one that faith
does not prove anything. - Nietzsche

Fame is a vapor; popularity is an accident; the only earthly
certainty is oblivion. - Mark Twain

When people are free to do as they please, they usually
imitate each other. - Eric Hoffer

On Freud:
I think he's crude, I think he's medieval, and I don't want an
elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his
dreams on me. - Nabokov

Sigmund Freud was a half-baked Viennese quack.  Our literature,
culture, and the films of Woody Allen would be better today if
Freud had never written a word. - Ian Shoales

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is
judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
- Arnold Bennett

Epitaph for a departed waiter:
God finally caught his eye. - George S. Kaufman

``Gay'' used to be one of the most agreeable words in the language.
Its appropriation by a notably morose group is an act of piracy.
- Arthur M. Schlesinger

German: a good fellow maybe; but it is better to hang him.
- Russian proverb

On the whole human beings want to be good but not too good and
not quite all the time. - George Orwell

In general, the art of government consists in taking as much
money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the
other. - Voltaire

I feel a very unusual sensation --- if it is not indigestion,
I think it must be gratitude. - Disraeli

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person,
nation, or creed. - Bertrand Russell

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the
object of life is happiness. - George Orwell

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure;
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
- Lord Byron

I've decided to skip ``holistic''.  I don't know what it means,
and I don't want to know.  That may seem extreme, but I followed
the same strategy toward ``Gestalt'' and the Twist and lived to
tell the tale. - Calvin Trillin

It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. - Anatole France

To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
- Ambrose Bierce

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape
over their will to power. - Aldous Huxley

I'm an idealist; I don't know where I'm going but I'm on
my way. - Carl Sandburg

I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront
your intelligence. - William F. Buckley

The interview is an intimate conversation between journalist
and politician wherein the journalist seeks to take advantage
of the garrulity of the politician and the politician of the
credulity of the journalist. - Emery Kelen

Liberal: a power worshipper without power. - Orwell

By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying ---
One of you is lying.
 - Dorothy Parker

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads
haven't been cut off. - E. M. Cioran

The main difference between men and women is that men are
lunatics and women are idiots. - Rebecca West

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is
a delight to moralists --- that is why they invented hell.
 - Bertrand Russell

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the
vanquished were of course exterminated. - Voltaire

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the
slime of a new bureaucracy. - Kafka

If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and
live in Hell. - Philip Sheridan

It was not until I had attended a few postmortems that
I realized that even the ugliest human exteriors may
contain the most beautiful viscera, and was able to
console myself for the facial drabness of my
neighbors in omnibuses by dissecting them in my
imagination.  - J. B. S. Haldane

The white race is the cancer of history.  It is the white
race and it alone --- its ideologies and inventions ---
which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it
spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the
planet, which now threatens the very existence of life
itself.  - Susan Sontag

This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy
for those who feel. - Horace Walpole

Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
 - Cowper, Retirement

Great contest follows, and much learned dust
Involves the combatants. - Cowper, The Garden

To combat may be glorious, and success
Perhaps may crown us; but to fly is safe.
 - Cowper, The Garden

But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise,
Kings would not play at.
 - Cowper, The Task, bk iv, The Winter Evening

*
I am monarch of all I survey,
  My right there is none to dispute;
From the centre all round to the sea
  I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Oh, solitude! where are the charms
  That sages have seen in thy face?
Better dwell in the midst of alarms,
  Than reign in this horrible place.
 - Cowper, Verses Supposed to be Written
by Alexander Selkirk

Secrets with girls, like loaded guns with boys,
Are never valued till they make a noise.
 - George Crabbe, Tales of the Hall, iii The Maid's Story.

You cannot hope to bribe or twist,
Thank God! the British journalist.
But seeing what the man will do
Unbribed, there's no occasion to.
 - Humbert Wolfe

"General John Cocke of Bremo, Virginia, a well-to-do planter of
old family, who dominated the Board of Visitors of the University
of Virginia for thirty-three years, led the demand for nation-wide
prohibition, and was elected president of the American Temperance
Union in 1836." Boorstin - The Americans - the National Experience, p. 214.

Les Philosophes qui font des syst\`emes sur la secr\'ete contruction de
l'univers, sont comme nos voyageurs qui vont a Constantinople, et qui
parlent du S\'erail: Ils n'en ont vu que les dehors, et ils pr\'etendent
savoir ce que fait le Sultan avec ses Favorites.
 - Voltaire, Pens\'ees Philosophiques (1766)

*
Kathleen Mavourneen! the grey dawn is breaking,
  The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill;
The lark from her light wing the bright dew is shaking;
  Kathleen Mavourneen! what, slumbering still?
Oh! hast thou forgotten how soon we must sever?
  Oh! hast thou forgotten how soon we must part?
It may be for years, and it may be forever,
Oh! why art thou silent, thou voice of my heart?
 - Julia Crawford (fl. 1835) Kathleen Mavourneen,
Metropolitan Magazine, London, 1835

For I must go where lazy Peace
Will hide her drowsy head;
And, for the sport of kings, increase
The number of the dead.
 - Sir William Davenant 1606-1714
The Soldier going to the Field

Can you imagine a mathematician writing Moby Dick?
`Let my name be Ishmael, let the captain's name be
Ahab, let the boat's name be Pequod, and let the
whale's name be as given in the title.'
 - Barry Cipra in Mathematical Intelligencer, Spring 1988

Everything is presumed to remain in the state in which it is.
 - Leibniz's Principles of Topical Knowledge in his
An Introduction to a Secret Encyclopedia

Those long chains of reasoning, quite simple and easy, which
geometricians use in order to achieve their most difficult
demonstrations, had given me occasion to imagine that all things
which can be known by man are mutually related in the same way.
 - Descartes, Discourse on Method, part 2.

	In 1623, Galileo  attacked his most dangerous Jesuit opponent,
Orazio Grassi, himself a reputed scientist.  To prove that motion
produced heat, Grassi had cited a first century AD author who
claimed that the ancient Babylonians had cooked eggs by whirling
them around in a sling.
	``Now we have eggs'', replied Galileo, ``and slings, and strong
men to whirl them, and yet they will not become cooked: nay if
they were hot at first, they quickly become cold ...  Will he
rather trust the relation by others of what was done 2,000
years ago in Babylon than what he can at this moment verify in
his own person.  Sunday Telegraph, 1988 May 15.

All the intellectual arguments that you can make will not
communicate to deaf ears what the experience of music  really
is.  In the same way all the intellectual arguments in the
world will not convey an understanding of nature to those
of `the other culture'.  Philosophers may try to teach you by
telling you qualitatively about nature.  I am trying to describe
her.  But it is not getting across because it is impossible.
Perhaps it is because their horizons are limited in this way
that some people are able to imagine that the center  of the
universe is man. - R. P. Feynman, The Character of Physical Law, p. 58.

Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and
original in your work. - Flaubert

In Czechoslovakia it is also difficult to predict the past. - approximately
from NYT 1988 June 22

Physicists from Novosibirsk, recognizing the absurdity of the exercise,
pledged to make one discovery of worldwide importance, two discoveries
of all-Union importance and three discoveries of Siberian importance
to please political leaders at all levels.
- Roald Sagdeev in Issues in Science and Technology, vol. 4 Number 4 Summer 1988
Science and Perestroika: A Long way to go.

The idea that Ethiopians are hungry because some New Yorkers eat
at Lut\`ece is of course not new with Lapham (Armenians starved,
my mother suggested, because I lingered over my spinach), but
he does take it one or two steps further.
- Roger Starr reviewing Money and Class in American by Lewis Lapham,
Commentary 1988 August.

No need to make it too good.  Men, the brutes, will eat anything.
- One of Martha's female relatives.

Don't bite my finger.  Look where I'm pointing. - Warren McCulloch (approx)

Aaron Burr is not proved to be guilty under this indictment by any
evidence submitted to us.  We therefore find him not guilty.
- jury verdict, 1807 Sept 1

The latest play of British propagandists to make the Anglo-Jap alliance
palatable to Americans is to tell us that, if we wish, we may be admitted
to it on favorable terms.
Generous isn't it?
Equal to saying if we'll throw China to the wolves we may be one of them
and share the spoils.
Looks as if those bloomin' propagandists thought we were on the auction
block, doesn't it?
Thank'ee kindly, but American independence isn't for sale!
- cartoon caption, San Francisco Examiner 1921 October 1
The cartoon is labeled "Back of the camouflage" and shows a cannon
with a British and a Japanese in back of it holding a rope that
covers the mouth of the cannon with a dove labelled "Fine talk
of international concord".  The cannon muzzle is labelled
"Jap-British Alliance".  Uncle Sam has a balloon labelled
"Seems to be aimed at me".  There's an island in the sea
labelled "cables".  Filed in hchron[1,jmc] 1988 Aug.

In five years it may be as dangerous to praise Stalin as it was
to attack him two years ago.  But I should not regard this as an
advance.  Nothing is gained by teaching a parrot a new word.
 - George Orwell, in September 1946.

A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a
pocket.
 - John Dennis, The Gentleman's Magazine (1781)

`There are strings,' said Mr. Tappertit ` ... in the human heart
that had better not be wibrated.'
 - Dickens, Barnaby Rudge

`It was as true', said Mr. Barkis, ` ... as taxes is.  And
nothing's truer than them.'
 - Dickens,  David Copperfield

Say, like those wicked Turks, there is no What's-his-name but
Thingummy, and What-you-may-call-it is his prophet.
 - Dickens, David Copperfield.

Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was
beforehand with all the public departments in the art of
perceiving - HOW NOT TO DO IT.
 - Dickens, Little Dorrit.

A highly geological home-made cake.
 - Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit

With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation
shining out the other.
 - Martin Chuzzlewit

Decline-and-Fall-Off-The-Rooshan-Empire.
 - Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the
baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their
own self interest. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, book 1, ch. 2.
p. 18

A broad-wheeled waggon, attended by two men, and drawn by eight
horses, in about six weeks time carries and brings back between
London and Edinburgh near four ton weight of goods.  In about
the same time a ship navigated by six or eight men, and sailing
between the ports of London and Leith, frequently carries and
brings back two hundred ton weight of goods. - Adam Smith,
Wealth of Nations, book 1, chapter 3, p. 22.

Neurons are cheap and plentiful.  If it cost a million dollars to beget
a man, one neuron would not cost a mill.  They operate with comparatively
little energy.  The heat generated raises the blood in passage about
half a degree, and the flow is half a liter per minute, only a quarter
of a kilogram calorie per minute for $10↑10$, that is, 10 billion neurons.
Von Neumann would be happy to have their like for the same cost in his
robots.  His vacuum tubes can work a thousand times as fast as neurons,
so he could match a human brain with 10 million tubes; but it would take
Niagara Falls to supply the current and Niagara River to carry away the
heat.
 - Warren McCulloch, ``Why the Mind is in the Head'' in Cerebral Mechanisms
in Behavior - The Hixon Symposium, Lloyd A. Jeffress (ed.), Wiley 1951.,
p. 54.  On this Marvin Minsky commented, ``If that were true Niagara Falls
would be hot at the bottom.''  The story is sometimes heard with the
addition that the Empire State Building would be required to house it.
Presumably McCulloch used the notion on more than one occasion, and
the embellishment his also his.  Minsky wasn't at the Hixon Symposium,
so his comment probably relates to another occasion.

How can you answer a man who tells you that he would rather obey
God than men, and who is therefore sure to deserve heaven in
cutting your throat?
 - Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary, article on fanaticism

Fret not thyself because of the ungodly. - Psalms xxxvii.1

For I am a stranger with thee and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
O spare me a little, that I may recover my strength:
before I go hence, and be no more seen. - xxxix.12

A faithless and a stubborn generation. - lxxviii.9

I said in my haste, all men are liars. - cxvi.10

How they said, Down with it, down with it, even to the ground.
O daughter of Babylon, wasted with misery: yea happy shall he be
that rewarded thee, as thou hast served us.
Blessed shall he be that taketh thy children: and throweth them
against the stones. - cxxxviii.7

Such knowledge is too wonderful and excellent for me:
I cannot attain unto it. - cxxxix.5

It is lawful for Christian men, at the commandment of the Magistrate,
to wear weapons, and to serve in the wars.
 - Articles of religion xxxvii, Of the Civil Magistrates.

A Man may not marry his Grandmother. - Table of Kindred.