
“We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.”
Source: Introduction à l'Étude de la Médecine Expérimentale (1865)
“We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.”
1900s, A Free Man's Worship (1903)
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), I Philosophy
Variant: Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.
Address at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; quoted in The Independent, London (22 March 1990)
“None can reach heaven who has not passed through hell.”
Savitri (1918-1950), Book Two : The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Context: p>As in a studio of creative Death
The giant sons of Darkness sit and plan
The drama of the earth, their tragic stage.
All who would raise the fallen world must come
Under the dangerous arches of their power;
For even the radiant children of the gods
To darken their privilege is and dreadful right.
None can reach heaven who has not passed through hell.This too the traveller of the worlds must dare.</p
Source: The Magnificent Defeat