Famous quotes containing the words comprises, odes and/or olympian:
“The intension of a proposition comprises whatever the proposition entails: and it includes nothing else.... The connotation or intension of a function comprises all that attribution of this predicate to anything entails as also predicable to that thing.”
—Clarence Lewis (18831964)
“To be a woman and a writer
is double mischief, for
the world will slight her
who slights the servile house, and who would rather
make odes than beds.”
—Dilys Laing (19061960)
“GOETHE, raised oer joy and strife,
Drew the firm lines of Fate and Life,
And brought Olympian wisdom down
To court and mar, to gown and town,
Stooping, his finger wrote in clay
The open secret of to-day.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)