Peter de Noronha (1897–1970) Indian businessman
The Pageant of Life (1964), On The Gita
Source: The Bondage of the Will
Peter de Noronha (1897–1970) Indian businessman
The Pageant of Life (1964), On The Gita
“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me.”
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer
How It Feels to Be Colored Me (1928)
Context: Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It is beyond me.
But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall. Against a wall in company with other bags, white, red and yellow. Pour out the contents, and there is discovered a jumble of small things priceless and worthless. A first-water diamond, an empty spool, bits of broken glass, lengths of string, a key to a door long since crumbled away, a rusty knife-blade, old shoes saved for a road that never was and never will be, a nail bent under the weight of things too heavy for any nail, a dried flower or two still a little fragrant. In your hand is the brown bag. On the ground before you is the jumble it held — so much like the jumble in the bags, could they be emptied, that all might be dumped in a single heap and the bags refilled without altering the content of any greatly. A bit of colored glass more or less would not matter. Perhaps that is how the Great Stuffer of Bags filled them in the first place — who knows?
“2084. He that does not speak Truth to me, does not believe me when I speak Truth.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
"To the Indianapolis Clergy." The Iconoclast (Indianapolis, IN) (1883)
William Hague (1961) British politician
25 October 2000, House of Commons, Prime Minister's Questions.
2000
Rousas John Rushdoony (1916–2001) American theologian
Source: Writings, The Institutes of Biblical Law (1973), p. 574
Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) French sculptor
Source: Rodin : the man and his art, with leaves from his notebook, 1917, p. 99
“What I say to myself - who says it? Who does he say it to?”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Lo que me digo, ¿quién lo dice?
Voces (1943)