Famous quotes containing the words shadow and/or detail:
“He [Pompey] stands, the shadow of a great name.”
—Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39–65)
“General scepticism is the live mental attitude of refusing to conclude. It is a permanent torpor of the will, renewing itself in detail towards each successive thesis that offers, and you can no more kill it off by logic than you can kill off obstinacy or practical joking.”
—William James (1842–1910)