By Still Waters (1906)
Context: We cannot for forgetfulness forego the reverence due to them
Who wear at times they do not guess the sceptre and the diadem.
As bright a crown as this was theirs when first they from the Father sped;
Yet look with deeper eyes and still the ancient beauty is not dead.
He mingled with the multitude. I saw their brows were crowned and bright,
A light around the shadowy heads, a shadow round the head of light.
“Into the half light and shadow go I. Within my head”
"The World".
Silex Scintillans (1655)
“My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around.”
“Woman is the crowning excellence of God's creation … Woman is light, man is shadow.”
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay: From Bankim's novel Krishnakanta's Will, quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2001). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p. 114-115
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 171.
“With determination and purpose, I head into the light.”
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
Book 10: Exposition of Canon II; this is the earliest known description of the inverted image produced by a camera obscura,; as translated in by Ian Jonston in The Mozi (2010), p. 489
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay: From Bankim's novel Krishnakanta's Will. Quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2001). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p. 114-115
“The head is borne towards the heavens and has two lights, as it were the sun and moon.”
As quoted by J. J. McEvoy, The philosophy of Robert Grosseteste (1982) p. 372.
