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That all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
— 1766 Remark, Feb. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2.
When two equally matched armiesmeet, it isthemanof sorrow who wins.
Lao-Tzu— c.250 BC Tao-te Ching, no.69. Collected in LinYutang (trans and ed) The Wisdom of China and India (1942).
Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.
edward abbey— "Cliffrose and Bayonets", p. 37
It is a bad sign when a new-born babe has not lungs enough to make itself heard over the whole house. It is equally a bad symptom when the new convert is born dumb, and cannot find his voice to praise God audibly.
theodore l. cuyler— P. 562. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
To a superior race of beings the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem equally ridiculous.
william hazlitt— No. 191 (Lecture VIII, "On the Living Poets")
Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests at least equally important and equally deserving the considerations of Congress.
andrew johnson— Veto message to the House of Representatives (22 February 1869)
Well, as a militant feminist, I believe in complete equality with men: intellectual, professional, economic, social and sexual; they're all equally essential, and they're all equally lacking in American society today.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair— "Playboy Interview: Madalyn Murray", Playboy (October 1965)
However widely, or equally, or "fairly", it may be distributed, no general increase of the community's wealth can make any approach to satiating this need, the ground of which is the desire of every one to excel every one else in the accumulation of goods.
thorstein veblen— p.32 (The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899))
He is equally great whether his theme be religion, patriotism, or love. As a political poet he is one of the greatest of all time.
walther von der vogelweide— H. G. Atkins, in Edgar Prestage (ed.) Chivalry (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1928) pp. 99-100.
Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.
edward bellamy— Ch. 6 (Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888))
I am puzzled that Conway Morris apparently doesn't grasp the equally strong (and inevitable) personal preferences embedded in his own view of life.
simon conway morris— Stephen Jay GouldNatural History: Vol. 107, No. 10: "Showdown on the Burgess Shale"
Pain is good, I'd say, when it's incidental to Love. In 'I give up my life for my friend' it is my friend, not my death, that matters. And sometimes I needn't give up my life for him, I can live for him, and with him, and the power of the spirit is then equally manifested, I should think.
e. m. forster— Letter 285, to George Thomson, 1 August 1931
I know of no severe depression, in any country or any time, that was not accompanied by a sharp decline in the stock of money and equally of no sharp decline in the stock of money that was not accompanied by a severe depression.
Milton Friedman— As quoted in The Money Masters (1995)
Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest the interests of the white and of the colored people both and equally and to put forth my best efforts in behalf of a civil policy which will forever wipe out in our political affairs the color line and the distinction between North and South, to the end that we may have not merely a united North or a united South, but a united country.
rutherford b. hayes— Inaugural Address (5 March 1877).
The writer does not get from his work as he writes and reads it the same aesthetic shock that the reader does; and since the writer is so accustomed to reading other stories, and having them produce a decided effect upon him, he is disquieted at not being equally affected by his own.
Randall Jarrell— "Ten Books," The Southern Review (Autumn 1935) [p. 8]
All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.
lucretius— As quoted in What Great Men Think of Religion (1972 [1945]) by Ira D. Cardiff, p. 245. Actually said by Edward Gibbon? "The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful." — Edward Gibbon (The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776, Vol. I, Ch. II).
Raymond Aron ascribes to Weber the view that ‘each man’s conscience is irrefutable.’ ... while [Weber] holds that an agent may be more or less rational in acting consistently with his values, the choice of any one particular evaluative stance or commitment can be no more rational than any other. All faiths and all evaluations are equally non-rational...
alasdair macintyre— p. 26 (After Virtue (1981))
With their propagandistic frame of mind, feminist leaders never admitted that their opponents could be equally motivated by ethics.
camille paglia— p. 39 ("No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality")
We stand equally against government by a plutocracy and government by a mob. There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with "the money touch," but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.
theodore roosevelt— Letter to Sir Edward Grey (15 September 1913).
Fresh pitsand, however, in spite of all its excellence in concrete structures, is not equally useful in stucco, the richness of which, when the lime and straw are mixed with such sand, will cause it to crack as it dries on account of the great strength of the mixture. But river sand, though useless in "signinum" on account of its thinness, becomes perfectly solid in stucco when thoroughly worked by means of polishing instruments.
vitruvius— Chapter IV, Sec. 3
Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally. I would we could do so, for her benefits are mightily misplaced, and the bountiful blind woman doth most mistake in her gifts to women.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, As You Like It (c.1599-1600), Act I, scene 2, line 34.
An abstraction is one thing that represents several real things equally well.
— Edsger W. Dijkstra, Edsger Dijkstra quoted by David Lorge Parnas: Use the Simplest Model, But Not Too Simple. CACM. June 2007.. Retrieved on 2008-11-19.
I think that a man who has been guilty of an indictable offence ought not to have the assistance of the law to recover the profits of his crime; and that whether his agents be innocent or criminal, privy or not privy, his claim against those agents is equally inadmissible in a Court of law.
— Booke, J., Farmer v. Russell (1798), 2 Bos. & Pull. 301.
I don't have prejudice, I hate everyone equally.
— H. L. Mencken, attributed in The Mammoth Book of Jokes, ISBN 1-84119-180-9
There is a famous formula, perhaps the most compact and famous of all formulas developed by Euler from a discovery of de Moivre: It appeals equally to the mystic , the scientist , the philosopher , the mathematician .
— Edward Kasner and James R. Newman in Mathematics and the Imagination (1940)
All pantheism must ultimately be shipwrecked on the inescapable demands of ethics, and then on the evil and suffering of the world. If the world is a theophany , then everything done by man, and even by animal, is equally divine and excellent; nothing can be more censurable and nothing more praiseworthy than anything else; hence there is no ethics.
Arthur Schopenhauer— Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Vol. II, Ch. XLVII
Even in youth Catiline had many shameful intrigues with a maiden of noble rank, with a priestess of Vesta and other affairs equally unlawful and impious.
— Sallust, in Catiline's War, Book XV, pt.1 (translated by J. C. Rolfe).
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
— Samuel Johnson, reported in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1778).
It is important to understand what I mean by semiosis . All dynamic action , or action of brute force , physical or psychical, either takes place between two subjects, whether they react equally upon each other, or one is agent and the other patient, entirely or partially, or at any rate is a resultant of such actions between pairs. But by "semiosis" I mean, on the contrary, an action, or influence, which is, or involves, a cooperation of three subjects, such as a sign , its object, and its interpretant, this tri-relative influence not being in any way resolvable into actions between pairs.
— Charles Sanders Peirce, in "Pragmatism" (1907), also in The Essential Peirce : Selected Philosophical Writings (1998) edited by the Peirce Edition Project, Vol. 2, p. 411
The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being's difficulty in coming to viruous balance with himself.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, in Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything p.262
