Those who will not reason, perish in the act.
Those who will not act, perish for that reason.
-- W. H. Auden, _Shorts_
Those who will not act, perish for that reason.
-- W. H. Auden, _Shorts_
Related:
- Logic is like the sword- those who appeal to it shall perish by it. -- Samuel Butle
- Pereant, inquit, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.
[Confound those who have said our remarks before us.
] or [May they perish who have expressed our bright ideas before us.] -- Aelius Donatu... - Pereant, inquit, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.
[May they perish, he said, those who have said our remarks before us.
] -- Aelius Donatu... - In those whom I like, I can find no common denominato
in those whom I love I can: they all make me laugh. -- W. H. Auden (1907-1973) - American poe... - Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.
-- George Santayana (1863-1952) "The Life of Reason" (1905-1906)... - Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana, The Life of Reaso... - For who would lose,
Though full of pain this intellectual being,
Those thoughts that wander through eternity,
To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost
In the wide womb of uncreated night?
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 146... - Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire....
