“If the hero join combat with night and conquer it, may shreds of it remain upon him!”
Jean Genet book The Thief's Journal
The Thief's Journal (1949)
Source: Hunted
“If the hero join combat with night and conquer it, may shreds of it remain upon him!”
Jean Genet book The Thief's Journal
The Thief's Journal (1949)
“Earth helped him with the cry of blood.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Song at the Feast of Broughton Castle.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935) Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory
Original: (ru) Человечество не останется вечно на земле, но в погоне за светом и пространством сначала робко проникнет за пределы атмосферы, а затем завоюет себе все околосолнечное пространство <br class="br">Source: from Воздухоплавание в наше время // Современный мир. — 1912. — № 7. — С. 260. (and His epitaph) <br class="br">Source: Mentioned in Beyond the Planet Earth, by K. Tsiolkovsky (1920), translated by K. Syers (1960), reviewed by M. G. Whillans, Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Vol. 55 (1961), p. 144 http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/JRASC/0055//0000144.000.html
Jan Smuts (1870–1950) military leader, politician and statesman from South Africa
Smuts in a letter dated 8 January 1921, published in the New York Evening Post, 2 March 1921
“On Earth it was day in some places, night in others.”
Vanna Bonta book Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel
Source: Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995), Ch. 44
“That alone completes a spirit and blesses it, — to love Him, the spring of spirits.”
Robert Leighton (1611–1684) 17th century Archbishop of Glasgow, and Principal of the University of Edinburgh
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 449.
Context: It is a union with a Higher Good by love, that alone is endless perfection. The only sufficient object for man must be something that adds to and perfects his nature, to which he must be united in love; somewhat higher than himself, yea, the highest of all, the Father of spirits. That alone completes a spirit and blesses it, — to love Him, the spring of spirits.
Huston Smith book The World's Religions
The World's Religions (1991)
Context: He [Jesus] could have been that [a healer and exorcist]--indeed, he could have been "the most extraordinary figure in … the stream of Jewish charismatic healers," as the same New Testament scholar goes on to say--without attracting more than local attention. What made him outlive his time and place was the way he used the Spirit that coursed though him not just to heal individuals but -- this was his aspiration -- to heal humanity, beginning with his own people.
Friedrich Nietzsche book The Will to Power
Sec. 942 (Notebook W I 5. August - September 1885, KGW VII, 3.412, KSA 11.678)
The Will to Power (1888)