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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 %2common opinions%1, 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

"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".
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 wrong". - Cromwell.

"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.

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

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

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.

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

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".

"Yourjob 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.

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

"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.

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

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

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

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.

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 prisonier et mort (fort), il n'a rien dit."