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  • Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.

  • In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.

    Alexis de Tocqueville (1896). “Recollections”, p.85, Library of Alexandria
  • Commonplace people have an answer for everything and nothing ever surprises them. They try to look as though they knew what you were about to say better than you did yourself, and when it is their turn to speak, they repeat with great assurance something that they have heard other people say, as though it were their own invention.

    People   Trying   Looks  
    "The Journal of Eugene Delacroix: A Selection". Book edited by Hubert Wellington, translated by Lucy Norton, Cornell University Press, February 25, 1852 (p. 152), 1980.
  • Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best

  • One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.

    "EL Doctorow obituary" by Eric Homberger, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2015.
  • I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

  • I have a serious question." "I will give a serious answer." "Can a god be killed?" The humor drained from Roman's face. "Well, that depends on if you're a pantheist or a Marxist." "What's the difference?" "The first believes that divinity is the universe. The two are synonymous and nonexistent without each other. The second believes in anthropocentrism, seeing man in the center of the universe, and god as just an invention of human conscience. Of course, if you follow Nietzsche, you can kill God just by thinking about him.

    Believe   Thinking   Men  
  • Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.

  • You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

    Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.129, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself. So that might be creativity, family, invention, adventure, faith, service, it might be raising corgies, I don't know - Your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become inconsequential.

  • I'm not the marrying kind -" St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.

    Men   Female   Kind  
  • I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. If the resurrection of Jesus from the dead on that Easter Sunday were a public event which had been made known...not only to the 530 Jewish witnesses but to the entire population, all Jews would have become followers of Jesus.

    Easter   Jesus   Sunday  
  • You know, artists are influenced by other artists. We're all deeply influenced by what's around us; we don't make anything cold. Sometimes we think that we do. But within that, the most important part is that even though we're influenced, what are the levels of invention that we carry forth even as we've been influenced by something that's come before?

    "Carrie Mae Weems and a shifting stage". Interview with Tess Mayer, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 4, 2016.
  • To be sure, the use of force by one party in a market transaction in order to improve his price was no invention of capitalism. Unequal exchange is an ancient practice. What was remarkable about capitalism as a historical system was the way in which this unequal exchange could be hidden; indeed, hidden so well that it is only after five hundred years of the operation of this mechanism that even the avowed opponents of the system have begun to unveil it systematically.

    Party   Order   Years  
  • That as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

    Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.178, Applewood Books
  • The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. Someone the other day said, "It's the biggest thing since Gutenberg," and then someone else said "No, it's the biggest thing since the invention of writing."

  • I'm a raging leftist political activist. I've never had a spiritual thought in my life related to God. I'm clear that that's a human invention.

    Source: www.natureandhealth.com.au
  • If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His existence in history they cannot deny. How is it that without force or bribery, without arms or money, He has made such an immensely deep mark on the world as He certainly has?

    Jesus   Men   World  
  • The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about is now five years old.

    "BlackBerry CEO calls Apple's iPhone user interface outdated" by Katie Marsal, appleinsider.com. March 18, 2013.
  • For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles.

    Light   Mind   Oracles  
    Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.175, Booklassic
  • Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.

  • Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention.

  • I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.

    Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.

    Rights   People   Levels  
  • A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.

    Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”
  • The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns …it is safe to predict that… such social inventions as modern-type capitalism, facism and communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed towards the adjustment of modern society to modern methods

  • Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record than their works; no preconcerted theory described the workings of the imagination to be without imagination, nor did they venture to teach how to invent invention.

    "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1795 - 1822.
  • In all her products, Nature only develops her simplest germs. One would say that it was no great stretch of invention to create birds. The hawk which now takes his flight over the top of the wood was at first, perchance, only a leaf which fluttered in its aisles. From rustling leaves she came in the course of ages to the loftier flight and clear carol of the bird.

    Nature   Bird   Age  
    Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.112, Xist Publishing
  • Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity.

    Mother   Silly   Exercise  
  • Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine.

    Austin Kleon (2014). “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered”, p.67, Workman Publishing
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