1882 Quotes

“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.”
― Benjamin Brewster

“Would that cricketers had better lines, or at least that their most famous were not also their tritest or most banal. 'This thing can be done,' said Fred Spofforth in 1882. 'We'll get 'em in singles,' George Hirst did not say twenty years later. 'You guys are history,' growled Devon Malcolm in 1994. 'You've just dropped the World Cup,' Steve Waugh may have crowed in 1999. At least two of these could have been put into the mouth of Arnold Schwarzenegger.”
― Rodney Ulyate, Masterly Batting: 100 Great Test Innings

“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.”
― Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things

“Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in MIssissippi than in any other state.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Un conto ancora aperto

“We have developed a need that we cannot satisfy in reality: to hear people in the most dificult situations speak well and at length; we are delighted when the tragic hero still finds words, reasons, eloquent gestures, and altogether intellectual brightness, where life approaches abysses and me in reality usually lose their heads and certainly linguistic felicity. This kind of deviation from nature is perhaps the most agreeable repast for human pride: for its sake man loves art as the expression of a lofty, heroic unnaturalness and convention. We rightly reproach a dramatic poet if he does not transmute everything into reason and words but always retains in his hands a residue of silence—just as we are dissatisfied with the operatic composer who cannot find melodies for the highest sentiments but only a sentimental "natural" stammering and screaming. At this point nature is supposed to be contradicted. Here the vulgar attraction of illusion is supposed to give way to a higher attraction.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs