Book II, Ch. 29, p. 287
Selected Messages (1958 - 1980)
“A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.”
Guy Fawkes (1570–1606) English member of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605
Remark (6 November 1605) as quoted in The Dictionary of National Biography Vol. 6 (1917); He is here invoking a version of a famous statement of Hippocrates, also translated as "Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases."
John Holt (Lord Chief Justice) (1642–1710) English lawyer and Lord Chief Justice of England
2 Raym. Rep. 953.
Ashby v. White (1703)
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing
Cassandra (1860)
Context: By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it. And, did we even see this, how can we make the difference? How obtain the interest which society declares she does not want, and we cannot want?
African Spir (1837–1890) Russian philosopher
Source: Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937), p. 60.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 10.
William Howard Taft (1857–1930) American politician, 27th President of the United States (in office from 1909 to 1913)
Source: Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (Columbia University Press, 1916), P. 61.
“Plato by a goodly similitude declareth, why wise men refrain to meddle in the commonwealth. For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.”
Quam ob rem pulcherrima similitudine declarat Plato, cur merito sapientes abstineant a capessenda quippe republica. Cum populum videant in plateas effusum assiduis imbribus perfundi, nec persuadere queant illis, ut se subducant pluviae, tectaque subeant. Gnari nihil profuturos sese si exeant, quam ut una compluantur, semet intra tecta continent habentes satis, quando alienae stultitiae non possunt mederi, si ipsi saltem sint in tuto.
Thomas More book Utopia
Source: Utopia (1516), Ch. 1 : Discourses of Raphael Hythloday, of the Best State of a Commonwealth
“Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and had better come first. Purity means singleness. God is one.”
Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) poet, mountaineer, occultist
Source: Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929), Ch. 13 : Of the Banishings and of the Purifications.
Context: Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and had better come first. Purity means singleness. God is one. The Wand is not a Wand if it has something sticking to it which is not an essential part of itself. If you wish to invoke Venus, you do not succeed if there are traces of Saturn mixed up with it.
Michael Roberts (writer) (1902–1948) English schoolteacher and man of letters
Religion and Critique of Satisfaction in ' T E Hulme ',Carcanet Press,Manchester, 1982
