“They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.”
Source: Sons and Lovers
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Catharine A. MacKinnon (1946) American feminist and legal activist
Sexuality, Pornography, and Method: "Pleasure under Patriarchy" (1989) Ethics, Vol. 99, No. 2 pp. 314-346
“Fools scorn me when I dwell in human form: my higher being they know not as Great Lord of beings.”
W. Douglas P. Hill (1884–1962) British Indologist
Source: Chapter 9 (Raja–Vidya–Raja–Guhya yoga), p. 141. (11.)
“I am speaking to tell the truth, not from hatred or scorn of anyone.”
Francesco Petrarca Il Canzoniere
Io parlo per ver dire,
non per odio d'altrui, né per disprezzo.
Canzone 128, st. 4
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life
“To scorn the dictate of reason is to scorn the commandment of God.”
Thomas Aquinas book Summa Theologica
Source: Summa Theologica (1265–1274) I-II, q. 19, art. 5
Robert Williams Buchanan (1841–1901) Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist
"To David in Heaven", St. 10.
Undertones (1883)
Context: Upward my face I turn to you,
I long for you, I yearn to you,
The spectral vision trances me to utt'rance wild and weak;
It is not that I mourn you,
To mourn you were to scorn you,
For you are one step nearer to the beauty singers seek.
But I want, and cannot see you,
I seek and cannot find you,
And, see! I touch the book of songs you tenderly left behind you!
Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) American historian and collegiate professor
2000s, Before In History (2004)