
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 509.
Source: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), line 601 (tr. G. M. Cookson)
Ἄτης ἄρουρα θάνατον ἐκκαρπίζεται.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 509.
“I have done my best, and I hope I have sown some seeds which may bring forth good fruit.”
Essentials to Peace (1953)
Context: I fear, in fact I am rather certain, that due to my inability to express myself with the power and penetration of the great Churchill, I have not made clear the points that assume such prominence and importance in my mind. However, I have done my best, and I hope I have sown some seeds which may bring forth good fruit.
Vol. 2 "On Philosophy and the Intellect" as translated in Essays and Aphorisms (1970), as translated by R. J. Hollingdale
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Counsels and Maxims
Context: Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine. It isn’t money, for genius seldom gets any. It isn’t fame: fame is too uncertain and, more closely considered, of too little worth. Nor is it strictly for its own pleasure, for the great exertion involved almost outweighs the pleasure. It is rather an instinct of a unique sort by virtue of which the individual possessed of genius is impelled to express what he has seen and felt in enduring works without being conscious of any further motivation. It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.
The Sword Sung
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 413.
“God said so: Go forth, be fruitful, multiply, and rape the planet — it's yours.”
2000
Context: The ethic of conservation is the explicit abnegation of man's dominion over the Earth. The lower species are here for our use. God said so: Go forth, be fruitful, multiply, and rape the planet — it's yours. That's our job: drilling, mining and stripping. Sweaters are the anti-Biblical view. Big gas-guzzling cars with phones and CD players and wet bars — that's the Biblical view.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 191.
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