Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
Robert Walton in "Letter 1"
Source: Frankenstein (1818)
Context: I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
Robert Walton in "Letter 1"
Frankenstein (1818)
“By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
IV, 3
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV
Patañjali (-200–-150 BC) ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
The Light of the Soul: Its Science and Effect : a paraphrase of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, with commentary by Alice A. Bailey, (1927)
Alice A. Bailey (1880–1949) esoteric, theosophist, writer
Source: The Light of the Soul: Its Science and Effect: a paraphrase of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, with commentary (1927)
“A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Alexander Maclaren (1826–1910) British minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 589.
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
Preface to the Ukrainian edition http://home.iprimus.com.au/korob/Orwell.html of Animal Farm, as published in The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945 (1968) <br class="br">Context: In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated. And so for the last ten years, I have been convinced that the destruction of the Soviet myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the socialist movement.
