„There are essential and inessential insanities. The latter are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.“
Origine: Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
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„In the name of the former and of the latter and of their holocaust. Allmen.“
— James Joyce, libro Finnegans Wake
419.9-10
Finnegans Wake (1939)
— Chinmayananda Saraswati Indian spiritual teacher 1916 - 1993
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
„While there are two ways of contending, one by discussion, the other by force, the former belonging properly to man, the latter to beasts, recourse must be had to the latter if there be no opportunity for employing the former.“
Nam cum sint duo genera decertandi, unum per disceptationem, alterum per vim, cumque illud proprium sit hominis, hoc beluarum, confugiendum est ad posterius, si uti non licet superiore.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero Roman philosopher and statesman -106 - -43 a.C.
Book I, section 34. Translation by Andrew P. Peabody
De Officiis – On Duties (44 BC)
— Thomas Paine English and American political activist 1737 - 1809
The Crisis No. XIII
1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)
— Paulo Freire educator and philosopher 1921 - 1997
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Austrian writer 1830 - 1916
Es gibt Menschen mit leuchtendem und Menschen mit glänzendem Verstande. Die ersten erhellen ihre Umgebung, die zweiten verdunkeln sie.
Origine: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 28.
— Vera Nazarian American writer 1966
Origine: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
— Devdutt Pattanaik Indian physician; leadership consultant, mythologist and author 1970
Devdutt Pattanaik, in "Myth = Mithya (2008)", p. 200.
„Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.“
— James Thurber, libro The 13 Clocks
Origine: The 13 Clocks
— John Angell James British abolitionist 1785 - 1859
Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 315.
— Kirby Page American clergyman 1890 - 1957
An American Peace Policy (1925)
Contesto: Distinguish between the outlawry of war and the abolition of war. The former is only a step in the direction of the latter. An international treaty declaring war to be a public crime will no more abolish international violence than laws against murder have abolished all killing of one individual by another. There is general agreement, however, that the negotiation of an international treaty outlawing war would constitute an enormous stride toward peace.
— Baruch Spinoza Dutch philosopher 1632 - 1677
Contesto: I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge; this, I take it, is the reason why Christians are distinguished from the rest of the world, not by faith, nor by charity, nor by the other fruits of the Holy Spirit, but solely by their opinions, inasmuch as they defend their cause, like everyone else, by miracles, that is by ignorance, which is the source of all malice; thus they turn a faith, which may be true, into superstition.
Letter 21 (73) to Henry Oldenburg , November (1675)
„A man kept his character even when he was insane.“
— Graham Greene, libro The Ministry of Fear
Origine: The Ministry of Fear
