
Source: Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
No. 157
Aphorisms on Man (c. 1788)
Source: Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
“You have not that power you ought to have over him, till he comes to be”
Sec. 97
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Context: You have not that power you ought to have over him, till he comes to be more afraid of offending so good a friend than of losing some part of his future expectation.
“You will never have perfect men, Plato says, till you have perfect circumstances.”
Confessions Of A Sceptic
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)
Context: You will never have perfect men, Plato says, till you have perfect circumstances. Perhaps a true saying! — but, till the philosopher is born who can tell us what circumstances are perfect, a sufficiently speculative one. At any rate, one finds strange enough results — often the very best coming up out of conditions the most unpromising. Such a bundle of odd contradictions we human beings are, that perhaps full as many repellent as attracting influences are acquired, before we can give our hearts to what is right.
Source: Testimony: its Posture in the Scientific World (1859), p. 9
Fragment vii.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments
Barton incriminates Pringle, who has bullied him, in the crime of destroying the class's daffodil; the daffodil was actually destroyed by Barton himself.
Stand up, Nigel Barton (1965)
"Never Say Goodbye" on It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982).
Epist. i. ad Tim., 12, as cited in Francesco Saverio Nitti, Catholic Socialism (1895), p. 67