“And life may summon us to newer races.”
Hermann Hesse book The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game (1943)
The Glass Bead Game (1943)
“And life may summon us to newer races.”
Hermann Hesse book The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game (1943)
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
Source: Earthsea Books, The Other Wind (2001), Chapter 5 “Rejoining” (p. 284)
Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer
Source: 1990s, Palimpsest : A Memoir (1995), Ch. 12: The Guest of the Blue Nuns, p. 162
J.B. Priestley (1894–1984) English writer
"The Disillusioned", in The Balconinny, and Other Essays ([1929] 1969) p. 30.
Lope De Vega book La Dorotea
Dijeron que antiguamente
se fue la verdad al cielo;
tal la pusieron los hombres,
que desde entonces no ha vuelto.
En dos edades vivimos
los propios y los ajenos:
la de plata los estraños,
y la de cobre los nuestros.
Act I, sc. iv. Translation from Alan S. Trueblood and Edwin Honig (ed. and trans.) La Dorotea (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1985) p. 23.
La Dorotea (1632)
Aron Ra (1962) Aron Ra is an atheist activist and the host of the Ra-Men Podcast
"6th Foundational Falsehood of Creationism" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3k0dDFxkhM, Youtube (February 2, 2008) <br class="br">Youtube, Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
As quoted in The Peter Plan : A Proposal for Survival (1976) by Laurence J. Peter
1970s
Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) poet and political activist
Introduction
The Life of Poetry (1949)
Context: In time of crisis, we summon up our strength.
Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that can leap to our quickening, every memory that can make us know our power. And this luck is more than it seems to be: it depends on the long preparation of the self to be used.
In time of the crises of the spirit, we are aware of all our need, our need for each other and our need for our selves. We call up, with all the strength of summoning we have, our fullness.
David Brooks (1961) American journalist, commentator and editor
2010s
Source: [David, Brooks, http://graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0088-brooks.htm, Commencement Address, May 14, 2011]
“Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.”
Omne aevum curae; cunctis sua displicet aetas.
Ausonius (310–395) poet
Eclogae 2, line 10; translation from Hugh Gerard Evelyn White Ausonius ([1919-21] 1951) vol. 1, p. 165.