Famous quotes containing the words elements, commonly and/or recognized:
“Three elements go to make up an idea. The first is its intrinsic quality as a feeling. The second is the energy with which it affects other ideas, an energy which is infinite in the here-and-nowness of immediate sensation, finite and relative in the recency of the past. The third element is the tendency of an idea to bring along other ideas with it.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)
“The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)