“An unreflected light did never yet
Dazzle the vision feminine.”
Henry Taylor (1800–1886) English playwright and poet
Act I, sc. 5.
Philip van Artevelde (1834)
As quoted in No More Words : A Journal of My Mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2001) by Reeve Lindbergh, p. 41
Context: So dazzling was the spread of constellations that it had the impact of a vision, of some hidden insight. I drove home saying to myself: The dead, too, are like this, blazing within us — invisibly.
“An unreflected light did never yet
Dazzle the vision feminine.”
Henry Taylor (1800–1886) English playwright and poet
Act I, sc. 5.
Philip van Artevelde (1834)
“No longer did philosophers aspire to the deep spiritual insights and broad moral vision”
Thomas Cahill (1940) American scholar and writer
Source: Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003), Ch.VII The Way They Went: Greco-Roman Meets Judeo-Christian
Context: No longer did philosophers aspire to the deep spiritual insights and broad moral vision of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. They divided into conflicting schools and wandered through the Greco-Roman world as permanent immigrants, picking up tutoring jobs as they could.... the upshot was a debased intellectual climate, fragmented and agnostic.
Craig Groeschel (1967) American priest
It – How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It (2008, Zondervan)
“Your shallow men shall dream, dreams, your insightful men shall see visions.”
Nikki Sixx (1958) American musician
“Reductionism can expand our vision and give us new insights into the nature and creation of art.”
Eric R. Kandel (1929) American neuropsychiatrist
The Age of Insight (2012)
Olaf Stapledon book Last and First Men
Source: Last and First Men (1930), Chapter VII: The Rise of the Second Men; Section 1, “The Appearance of a New Species” (p. 102)
George Steiner (1929–2020) American writer
Source: Real Presences (1989), I: A Secondary City, Ch. 6 (p. 27).
Tobias Smollett (1721–1771) 18th-century poet and author from Scotland
Ode to Independence, antistrophe 3.
Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009) British information theorist
Source: A Long Search for Information (2004), p. 27.