PHiLES DICTU PAGE

"All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
(Arthur Schopenhauer)

 "[if human bodies would be transparent]
their souls might as well
play the fool out o'doors as in their own house"
(Laurence Sterne)

"Therefore no serious man
 will certainly ever write anything
about any serious matter"
(Plato)

"Nicht Abgeschmackters find' ich auf der Welt
Als eine Teufel, der verzweifelt"
(Goethe, Faust)
"I find nothing more tasteless in this world
than a devil in doubt"

"Si nous ne trouvons pas des choses agréables,
nous trouverons du moins des choses nouvelles"
(Cacambo in Voltaire's Candide)
"If we do not find agreeable things, we will at least find new things"

"...because nowadays only criminals dare to cause
disadvantages to others without a philosophy"
(Robert Musil-48)

"...leisure gave me rather exceptional facilities for looking into things."
(Thucydides-Book V, par. 26)