“Meeting and visiting brothers, even if little, causes the development and maturity of intellects.”
Misnad al-Imām al-Jawād, p. 242
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Wir haben nicht zuviel Verstand und zu wenig Seele, sondern wir haben zu wenig Verstand in den Fragen der Seele.
Helpless Europe (1922)
Source: A Soldier Reports (1976), p. 19.
Context: Russians and vodka, I soon learned, were virtually synonymous. Twice I accompanied my division commander, General Craig, with his Russian opposite beyond the Elbe. Since General Craig was an abstainer, his aides had to exercise considerable ingenuity to dispose of the vodka from his glass in nearby flower pots. The Russian general several times did the same. I noted an unwavering peculiarity about the Russians: we always had to go to them; never would they come to visit us or even meet us halfway.
Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 609
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation
Select Charters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional History (1870; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913) p. xv.
Source: From Shakespeare to Existentialism (1959), p. 258
“Did ever the history of the intellect so little conceal so much?”
Essay on Atomism: From Democritus to 1960 (1961), p.6
