Famous quotes containing the word slower:
“The second [of Zenos arguments about motion] is the one called Achilles. This is to the effect that the slowest as it runs will never be caught by the quickest. For the pursuer must first reach the point from which the pursued departed, so that the slower must always be some distance in front.”
—Zeno Of Elea (c. 490430 B.C.)
“Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“It may be strangeyet who would change
Times course to slower speeding,
When one by one our friends have gone
And left our bosoms bleeding?”
—Thomas Campbell (17741844)
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