Source: The 48 Laws of Power
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
“Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky.”
Source: Iced
“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”
From a speech given at the Royal Academy of Art in 1953; quoted in Time magazine (11 May 1954).
Post-war years (1945–1955)
“You will divide the sheep from the goats and you will encourage the one and shepherd the other.”
The small god in Ch. 44 : the visitor
The Visitor (2002)
Context: You will divide the sheep from the goats and you will encourage the one and shepherd the other. You always had a leaning that way. Each of you will find the fight that suites yourself and your being. You will triumph, suffer, weep, rejoice, possibly die... If you die another will rise up in your name, if you don't die, you'll live an extremely long life. You are my angels, for whom an almost heaven waits... Your work will be long, however, long and hard before you can rest in it.
Abbott Planchard, p. 212
The Grail Quest, Heretic (2003)
“The sailor tells of winds, the ploughman of bulls,
the soldier counts his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.”
Navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator,
Enumerat miles vulnera, pastor oves.
II, i, 43–4.
Elegies
St. 9
Rugby Chapel (1867)
"The Silent Shepherds" (1958)
Context: I will have shepherds for my philosophers,
Tall dreary men lying on the hills all night
Watching the stars, let their dogs watch the sheep. And I'll have lunatics
For my poets, strolling from farm to farm, wild liars distorting
The country news into supernaturalism —
For all men to such minds are devils or gods — and that increases
Man's dignity, man's importance, necessary lies
Best told by fools.
Source: Lateral Thinking : Creativity Step by Step (1970), p. 100; Cited in Virginia K. Baillie et al. (1989) Effective Nursing Leadership: A Practical Guide. p. 244.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 59.
