“While the Father is self-dependent, the son is completely dependent upon the Father.”
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“In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.”
Croesus (-596–-546 BC) King of Lydia
Quoted by Herodotus in The Histories, Book I http://books.google.com/books?id=QA4ZZ5gRpnkC&q="In+peace+the+sons+bury+their+fathers+but+in+war+the+fathers+bury+their+sons"&pg=PA45#v=onepage
“A son is not a judge of his father, but the conscience of the father is in his son.”
Simon Soloveychik (1930–1996) Russia writer and philosopher
Book 1, part 1, ch. 5
Pedagogika dlya vseh (Parenting For Everyone) (1977–1986)
“In peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons.”
Variant translation: In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
Book 1, Ch. 87.
The Histories
“The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.”
Joan Didion book Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Source: Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“404. One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Strong joy and grief depend upon the treatment this rudimentary social self receives.”
Charles Cooley (1864–1929) American sociologist
Source: Human Nature and the Social Order, 1902, p. p. 166