Famous quotes containing the words general, companion and/or profile:
“‘A thing is called by a certain name because it instantiates a certain universal’ is obviously circular when particularized, but it looks imposing when left in this general form. And it looks imposing in this general form largely because of the inveterate philosophical habit of treating the shadows cast by words and sentences as if they were separately identifiable. Universals, like facts and propositions, are such shadows.”
—David Pears (b. 1921)
“I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Expecting rain, the profile of a day
Wears its soul like a hat....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)