Poem VIII, lines 28-30; translation by W. V. Cooper
Alternate translation:
: How happy is mankind
if the love that orders the stars above
rules, too, in your hearts.
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book II
“O! immodest mortal! Your destiny is the joy of watching the evershifting battle!”
Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906) Austrian physicist
S. Rajasekar, N.Athavan, " Ludwig Edward Boltzmann http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0609047" (7 September 2006), arXiv:physics/0609047v1 [physics.hist-ph] <br class="br">Attributed
Fred Fisher (1875–1942) American songwriter
Song Peg o' My Heart (1913)
“Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Context: Blind ignorance misleads us thus and delights with the results of lascivious joys. Because it does not know the true light. Because it does not know what is the true light. Vain splendour takes from us the power of being.... behold! for its vain splendour we go into the fire, thus blind ignorance does mislead us. That is, blind ignorance so misleads us that... O! wretched mortals, open your eyes.
“O I loved too much and by such and such is happiness thrown away.”
Patrick Kavanagh (1904–1967) poet
Poems, Innocence, On Raglan Road
“Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.”
David Guterson book Snow Falling on Cedars
Source: Snow Falling on Cedars (1994), Ch. 32, last page.
Frederick William Faber (1814–1863) British hymn writer and theologian
Paradise.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
