“Hell is that state where one has ceased to hope.”
Source: The Keys of the Kingdom (1941), p. 207
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Mephistopheles, Act II, scene i, line 118
Doctor Faustus (c. 1603)
Source: Dr. Faustus
Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979), p. 37 - 27 January 1921
Context: Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking, observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science. If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, we are engaged in science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively as meaningful, then we are engaged in art. Common to both is love and devotion to that which transcends personal concerns and volition.
“We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.”
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter III, Consolation For Frustration, p. 85.
Oh, come with old Khayyam, and leave the Wise
To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies;
One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies;
The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.
FitzGerald's first edition (1859).
The Rubaiyat (1120)
Address to the Constituent Assembly (1947)
“Life and hope must cease together.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXII : Comparisons: Information Rejected; Helen to Milicent
“That said, sometimes I feel that Israel has come out of the boils of the hell, a satanic state.”
Norman Finkelstein: Israel is committing a holocaust in Gaza http://www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?load=detay&link=164483 - Today's Zaman
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