“Persons are set on fire by someone who is already aflame. It is a trumpet call to high adventure that starts the forward movements away from old forms.”
What Will Get Us Ready (1944)
Context: Most persons are awakened and set on their new track of life through the quickening and kindling power of some person who becomes for them the instrument of inspiration and of the creation of faith and the vision of a nobler way of life. Persons are set on fire by someone who is already aflame. It is a trumpet call to high adventure that starts the forward movements away from old forms.
That is one of the greatest stories in the long history of religion. It was through a long and wonderful circuit of souls, in a succession of forerunners, that the kindling idea of “Something of God in the soul of man” came to George Fox.
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American writer 1863–1948Related quotes
“I used to be called Captain Chainsaw, now I am Nero, setting the Amazon aflame.”
On 20 August 2019 https://www.metropoles.com/brasil/politica-br/amazonia-bolsonaro-diz-que-passou-de-capitao-motosserra-a-nero, joking about the Amazon rainforest wildfires. Bolsonaro says Brazil lacks resources to fight Amazon fires https://www.ft.com/content/8f9ded3a-c4c8-11e9-a8e9-296ca66511c9. Financial Times (22 August 2019).
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Prerequisite to Dignity of Labour (1957), p. 245
Context: It is not in a person's nature to desire what he already has. Desire is a tendency, the start of a movement toward something, toward a point from which one is absent. If, at the very outset, this movement doubles back on itself toward its point of departure, a person turns round and round like a squirrel in a cage or a prisoner in a condemned cell. Constant turning soon produces revulsion. All workers, especially though not exclusively those who work under inhumane conditions, are easily the victims of revulsion, exhaustion and disgust and the strongest are often the worst affected.
“How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else…”
Source: Mercy
poem before 1973; in a exh. cat., ed. Suzanne Delehanty (1973; repr., Philadelphia: The Falcon Press, 1976), p. 40
1970's
"Fortunately"
Versus (1949)
Context: A young person is a person with nothing to learn
One who already knows that ice does not chill and fire does not burn...
It knows it can spend six hours in the sun on its first
day at the beach without ending up a skinless beet,
And it knows it can walk barefoot through the barn
without running a nail in its feet....
Meanwhile psychologists grow rich
Writing that the young are ones' should not
undermine the self-confidence of which.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdrLQ7DpiWs "Biblical Series II: Genesis 1: Chaos & Order"
“I feel the stars. Each sparkle sets aflame the pain in my heart.”
Source: Sirena
Judges on reality shows http://www.rediff.com/movies/slide-show/slide-show-1-tv-interview-with-shreya-ghosal/20110601.htm