Bertrand Russell
(1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
“It is very astonishing that man, being a mortal, can still develop feelings of haughtiness.”
23 April 2013.
A9 TV addresses, 2013
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Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933), p. 126
Context: Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. Just as the human body connects us with the mammals and displays numerous relics of earlier evolutionary stages going back to even the reptilian age, so the human psyche is likewise a product of evolution which, when followed up to its origins, show countless archaic traits.
“Creatures of a day! What is a man?
What is he not? A dream of a shadow
Is our mortal being.”
Pindar
(-517–-437 BC) Ancient Greek poet
Pythian 8, line 95-8; pages 162-3. (446 BC)
Context: Creatures of a day! What is a man?
What is he not? A dream of a shadow
Is our mortal being. But when there comes to men
A gleam of splendour given of Heaven,
Then rests on them a light of glory
And blesséd are their days.
Milan Kundera
(1929–2023) Czech author of Czech and French literature
As quoted in The Guardian (3 June 1988)
Iris Murdoch
(1919–1999) British writer and philosopher
Chen Shih-chung
politician
Chen Shih-chung (2020) cited in " Taiwan coronavirus patients in good condition: CDC https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3869327" on Taiwan News, 2 February 2020.
Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
John Adams
(1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
Letter to Jonathan Sewall (October 1759)
1750s
Context: Tis impossible to avail our selves of the genuine Powers of Eloquence, without examining in their Elements and first Principles, the Force and Harmony of Numbers, as employed by the Poets and orators of ancient and modern times, and without considering the natural Powers of Imagination, and the Disposition of Mankind to Metaphor and figure, which will require the Knowledge of the true Principles of Grammar, and Rhetoric, and of the best classical Authors.
Now to what higher object, to what greater Character, can any Mortal aspire, than to be possessed of all this Knowledge, well digested, and ready at Command, to assist the feeble and Friendless, to discountenance the haughty and lawless, to procure Redress of Wrongs, the Advancement of Right, to assert and maintain Liberty and Virtue, to discourage and abolish Tyranny and Vice?
