Famous quotes containing the words excess and/or activity:
“Solomons ... excess became an insult upon the privileges of mankind; for by the same plan of luxury, which made it necessary to have forty thousand stalls of horses,he had unfortunately miscalculated his other wants, and so had seven hundred wives....
Wisedeluded man!”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“When we say science we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.”
—Wyndham Lewis (18821957)
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