Assorted Themes, On Above Reason
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2002), p. 93
Page 17.
Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551)
Source: 1860s, Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863), Ch.2, p. 74
Lecture I, p. 23
The Duties of Women (1881)
Persecution
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
Context: A disciple was one day recalling how Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed were branded as rebels and heretics by their contemporaries.
Said the Master, Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy.
Education (1902)
Context: He who knows naught of dreaming can, likewise, never attain the heights of power and possibility in persuading the mind to act.
He who dreams not creates not.
For vapor must arise in the air before the rain can fall.
The greatest man of action is he who is the greatest, and a life-long, dreamer. For in him the dreamer is fortified against destruction by a far-seeing eye, a virile mind, a strong will, a robust courage.
And so has perished the kindly dreamer — on the cross or in the garret.
A democracy should not let its dreamers perish. They are its life, its guaranty against decay.
Thus would I expand the sympathies of youth.
Thus would I liberate and discipline all the constructive faculties of the mind and encourage true insight, true expression, real individuality.
Thus would I concentrate the powers of will.
Thus would I shape character.
Thus would I make good citizens.
And thus would I lay the foundations for a generation of real architects — real, because true, men, and dreamers in action.
Source: An examination of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy, and of the principal philosophical questions discussed in his writings
Maxim 519, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)
