Death in the Clouds (1935)
Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Daughter, 1728, p. 204
“Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.”
“One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.”
Source: Like Life
Ch 17
The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)
Context: My dear friend, the world is really one vast marketplace. No one cares where a man is from as long as he has gold in his pocket, or something you want. And the remarkable thing is this: the wars have only encouraged demand, trade has actually boomed in these difficult years. The ships are full, everyone is happy. War and politics are irrelevant, unless the great flow of trade is disturbed.
Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)
“One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride.”
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 874
Context: One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
“One may be humble out of pride.”
Book II, Ch. 17. Of Presumption
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
