
“There is strong shadow where there is much light.”
Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.
Götz von Berlichingen, Act I (1773)
Part 2, Ch. 4.
Household Papers and Stories (1864)
“There is strong shadow where there is much light.”
Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.
Götz von Berlichingen, Act I (1773)
Source: 1860s, First State of the Union address (1861)
Context: Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights. Nor is it denied that there is, and probably always will be, a relation between labor and capital producing mutual benefits. The error is in assuming that the whole labor of community exists within that relation.
To Leon Goldensohn, July 20, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004 - Page 37
Source: John Maynard Keynes: The Return of the Master (2009), Ch. 1 : What Went Wrong?
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 369.
“Night, the shadow of light,
And Life, the shadow of death.”
Second chorus, lines 1-12.
Atalanta in Calydon (1865)
Context: Before the beginning of years
There came to the making of man
Time with a gift of tears,
Grief with a glass that ran,
Pleasure with pain for leaven,
Summer with flowers that fell,
Remembrance fallen from heaven,
And Madness risen from hell,
Strength without hands to smite,
Love that endures for a breath;
Night, the shadow of light,
And Life, the shadow of death.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), III Six books on Light and Shade
“Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), III Six books on Light and Shade