"Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance."

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Source : Giambattista Vico (2015). “The New Science of Giambattista Vico”, p.153, Cornell University Press

Giambattista Vico

#Men Quotes #Luxury Quotes #Mad Quotes

“He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa. Stretches of English code whole sentences long have thickened, lost their articulations, their articulateness, their articulatedness. Like a dinosaur expiring and settling in the mud, the language has stiffened. Pressed into the mold of English, Petrus's story would come out arthritic, bygone"(117).”
“A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.”
“I don't see what's so good about being genuine. Clog dancing is genuine. Isn't being fake more of an achievement? At least it takes some inspiration. Like, sherbet dips, they're a special food. Think of all the additives and coloring and grinding that it takes to create a sherbet dip. But carrots? They're just out there, shrieking, "Hi, we're some carrots! Love us for it!" They never have to prove themselves.”
“What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal.”
“Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.”
“To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace”
“When you're happy it's pretty tough to knock you over. You can handle whatever comes along in life.”
“The seas are the hearts blood of the earth. Plucked up and kneaded by the sun and the moon, the tides are systole and diastole of earth's veins.”

Source : Henry Beston (1956). “The Outermost House”

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