Yoshida Kenkō (1283–1350) japanese writer
73
Essays in Idleness (1967 Columbia University Press, Trns: Donald Keene)
Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "Conservation Esthetic", p. 165.
Yoshida Kenkō (1283–1350) japanese writer
73
Essays in Idleness (1967 Columbia University Press, Trns: Donald Keene)
Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536) Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and theologian
As quoted in Words from the Wise : Over 6,000 of the Smartest Things Ever Said (2007) by Rosemarie Jarski, p. 312
Context: I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
“I am free of the busy world
There is not a doubt in my heart or a worry to disturb my mind”
Han-shan Chinese monk and poet
Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry
Context: Today I sat before the cliff
Until the mist and rainbows disappeared
I followed the emerald stream
Explored a thousand tiers of green cliffs
In the morning my spirit rests among white clouds
At night a bright moon floats in the sky
I am free of the busy world
There is not a doubt in my heart or a worry to disturb my mind
Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur
Kevin Carson (1963) American academic
"The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege" (2011)
“Only the free mind knows what Love is.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
Speech at the University of California, Berkley, as broadcast by Pacifica Radio (4 January 1969)
1960s
Anton LaVey book The Satanic Bible
The Satanic Bible (1969)
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Choice
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XX - First Principles
“God’s best gift Is a mind free from folly”
Phillip Vellacott, The Oresteian Trilogy, Penguin 1973 ( Google Books https://books.google.com.au/books?id=tuRiOESBVjkC) <br class="br">Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon