Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), p. 37
Source: War and Peace
Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), p. 37
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet
Estoy solo entre materias desvencijadas,
la lluvia cae sobre mí, y se me parece,
se me parece con su desvarío,solitaria en el mundo muerto,
rechazada al caer, y sin forma obstinada.
Débil del Alba (Weak with the Dawn or The Dawn's Debility), Residencia I (Residence I), I, stanza 5.
Alternate translation by Donald D. Walsh:
I am alone among rickety substances,
the rain falls upon me and it seems like me,
like me with its madness, alone in the dead world,
rejected as it falls, and without persistent shape.
Residencia en la Tierra (Residence on Earth) (1933)
“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”
Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects
Source: Sharp Objects
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
Source: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 5<!-- The sense of the ineffable, p. 90 -->
Context: In English the phrase that a person has "a presence" is hard to define. There are people whose being here and now is felt, even though they do not display themselves in action and speech. They have a "presence." … Of a person whose outwardness communicates something of his indwelling power or greatness, whose soul is radiant and conveys itself without words, we say he has presence.
Standing face to face with the world, we often sense a presence which surpasses our ability to comprehend. The world is too much with us. It is crammed with marvel. There is a glory, an aura, that lies about all beings, a spiritual setting of reality.
To the religious man it is as if things stood with their backs to him, their faces turned to God, as if the glory of things consisted in their being an object of divine care.
Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993) British-American economist
Source: 1950s, The Organizational Revolution: A study in the ethics of economic organization, 1953, p. 10 as cited in: Joseph T. Mahoney & Anne S. Huff (1993) Toward a New Social Contract. Theory in Organization Science https://ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/30105/towardnewsocialc93136maho.pdf?sequence=2 Faculty paper, University of Illinois at Urbana
“… I'm looking for the face I had, before the world was made…”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
“The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Said in conversation with Mrs. Alan Wood; quoted in Alan Wood's Bertrand Russell, the Passionate Sceptic (Allen and Unwin, 1957), pp. 236-7
1950s
“There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces.”
Nikos Kazantzakis book The Last Temptation of Christ
Disputed
Source: This occurs in the film The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), based upon the novel by Kazantzakis, but has not been located in the novel itself.
“The tight thoughts and the loose face will go over the whole world.”
Quoted by Henry Wotton in a letter to John Milton, 13 April 1638, as published in Logan Pearsall Smith, The life and letters of Sir Henry Wotton http://books.google.com/books?id=OrY4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA381 (1907), Vol. 2, p. 381<br>Translation: ""Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose..."" attributed to Wotton in Vol. 1, p. 22 http://books.google.com/books?id=vbU4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA22
“Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.”
Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West