Famous quotes containing the words general, strike and/or called:
“Suppose we think while we talk or write—I mean, as we normally do—we shall not in general say that we think quicker than we talk, but the thought seems not to be separate from the expression.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)
“We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–84)
“In nature there’s no blemish but the mind;
None can be called deformed but the unkind.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)