sum quotes

The community is a fictitious body, composed of the individual personswhoare considered asconstituting as it were its members.The interest of the community then, Bentley is what? The sum of the interests of the several members who compose it.

-Jeremy Bentham
  An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, ch.1.

   Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?

-Joan Didion
  Run River, ch.4.

   There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys; they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked out the sum for themselves.

- So«  ren Aabye Kierkegaard
   Journal entry (translated by Alexander Dru,1938).

  The production of surplus-value, or the extraction of surplus labour, is the specific end and aim, the sum and 558 substance, of capitalist production.

- Karl Heinrich Marx
  Das Kapital.

I see you belong to the category, old friend, which will havethingsintheround, whichdoesloveanend, causes, the balance sheet drawn and equalled.But, mydear Gid, the world is not like thatit is untidy, there are no reasons, the final sum never balances.

-Timothy Mo
  An Insular Possession, ch.44.

Nec species sua cuique manet, rerumque novatrix ex aliis alias reddit natura figuras. nec perit in toto quidquam, mihi credite, mundo, sed variat faciemque novat, nascique vocatur incipere esse aliud, quam quod fuit ante, morique, desinere illud idem. cum sint huc forsitan illa, haec translata illuc, summa tamen omnia constant. No species remains constant: that great renovator of matter Nature, endlessly fashions new forms from old: there's nothing in the whole universe that perishes, believe me; rather it renews and varies its substance. What we describe as birth isno morethan incipient change froma prior state, while dying is merely to quit it. Though the parts may be transported hither and thither, the sum of all matter is constant.

-Ovid full name Publius OvidiusNaso   4317
Metamorphoses, bk.15, l.252^8 (translated by Peter Green).

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

- C(yril) Northcote Parkinson
  Parkinson's Law: the Pursuit of Progress, ch.3.

To make a start, out of particulars and make them general, rolling up the sum, by defective means Sniffing the trees, just another dog among a lot of dogs.What else is there? And to do?

-William Carlos Williams
  Paterson, bk.1, preface.