„God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.“
— Heraclitus pre-Socratic Greek philosopher -535
Fragment 67
Numbered fragments
Eredeti: (el) ὁ θεὸς ἡμέρη εὐφρόνη, χειμὼν θέρος, πόλεμος εἰρήνη, κόρος λιμός
„The story of the hero who slays the devouring dragon was not merely a symbol of day and night, of summer and winter; it was a literal explanation of the phenomena, it was the science of early times.“
— Upton Sinclair, könyv The Profits of Religion
Book One : The Church of the Conquerors, "The Priestly Lie"
The Profits of Religion (1918)
Kontextus: When the first savage saw his hut destroyed by a bolt of lightning, he fell down upon his face in terror. He had no conception of natural forces, of laws of electricity; he saw this event as the act of an individual intelligence. To-day we read about fairies and demons, dryads and fauns and satyrs, Wotan and Thor and Vulcan, Freie and Flora and Ceres, and we think of all these as pretty fancies, play-products of the mind; losing sight of the fact that they were originally meant with entire seriousness—that not merely did ancient man believe in them, but was forced to believe in them, because the mind must have an explanation of things that happen, and an individual intelligence was the only explanation available. The story of the hero who slays the devouring dragon was not merely a symbol of day and night, of summer and winter; it was a literal explanation of the phenomena, it was the science of early times.
Utolsó frissítés 2020. május 22.. Történelem
Upton Sinclair
amerikai regényíró 1878 - 1968Hasonló idézetek
„Nights and days came and passed
And summer and winter
and the rain.
And it was good to be a little Island.
A part of the world
and a world of its own
All surrounded by the bright blue sea.“
— Margaret Wise Brown, könyv The Little Island
Változat: nights and days came and passed
and summer and winter
and the sun and the wind
and the rain.
and it was good to be a little island
a part of the world
and a world of its own
all surrounded by the bright blue sea.
Forrás: The Little Island
„In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.“
— Robert Louis Stevenson, könyv A Child's Garden of Verses
Bed in Summer, st. 1.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
„If he was winter, I was summer. If I was sunshine, he was night. A dark and stormy one.“
— Karen Marie Moning, könyv Darkfever
Forrás: Darkfever
„O to be a dragon,
a symbol of the power of Heaven — of silkworm
size or immense; at times invisible.
Felicitous phenomenon!“
— Marianne Moore American poet and writer 1887 - 1972
"O To Be A Dragon" in O To Be A Dragon (1957)
Poetry
„Winter draws what summer paints.“
— Elizabeth Bibesco writer, actress; Romanian princess 1897 - 1945
Haven (1951)
„Scientific progress has led philosophers to turn their attention from the explanation of physical phenomena, abandoned to science, in order to direct it towards the problem of being itself.“
— Pierre Hadot French historian and philosopher 1922 - 2010
Les progrès scientifiques ont amené les philosophes à détourner leur attention de l’explication des phénomènes physiques, abandonnée désormais à la science, pour la diriger vers le problème de l’être lui-même.
La voile d'Isis: Essai sur l'histoire de l'idée de Nature (2004)
„Well actually the Genesis 8:22 that I use in there is that "as long as the earth remains there will be seed time and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night," my point is, God's still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous.“
— James Inhofe American politician 1934
2012-03-08
Brian
Tashman
James Inhofe Says the Bible Refutes Climate Change
Right Wing Watch
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/james-inhofe-says-bible-refutes-climate-change
2012-03-13
„Whereas "false stories" can be told anywhere and at any time, myths must not be recited except during a period of sacred time (usually in autumn or winter, and only at night)“
— Mircea Eliade Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer and philosopher 1907 - 1986
Myth and Reality (1963)
Kontextus: Whereas "false stories" can be told anywhere and at any time, myths must not be recited except during a period of sacred time (usually in autumn or winter, and only at night).... This custom has survived even among peoples who have passed beyond the archaic stage of culture. Among the Turco-Mongols and the Tibetans the epic songs of the Gesar cycle can be recited only at night and in winter.
„At the same time, as Hayek maintained elsewhere, the facts of the social sciences do not lend themselves to the same degree of prediction, or explanation, as the facts of the natural sciences—it is for this reason that there are degrees of prediction or explanation. Prediction may be expressed numerically, moreover, “not as a unique value or magnitude but as a range,” narrow in the natural sciences and potentially very broad in the social sciences. In the social sciences, Hayek modified the conception of a numerical range to a “range of phenomena to expect.”“
— Alan O. Ebenstein American political scientist, educator and author 1959
This was his concept of pattern prediction, or explanation of the principle, broad, general predictions.
Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)
„Pray for wet Summers, Winters wanting Rain.“
— John Ogilby Scottish academic 1600 - 1676
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Georgicks
„A wet summer and a fine winter should be the farmer's prayer.“
— John Conington British classical scholar 1825 - 1869
Georgics, Book I, p. 39
Translations, The Poems of Virgil Translated Into English Prose (1872)
„Night came—the deep and purple time
Of summer in a southern clime.“
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
„Longer than a winter's night for a man who is ill-wed.“
— Luis de Góngora Spanish Baroque lyric poet 1561 - 1627
Más largo
que una noche de Diciembre
para un hombre mal casado.
"Murmuraban los rocines", line 94, cited from Poesias de D. Luis de Gongora y Argote (Madrid: Imprenta Nacional, 1820) p. 83. Translation from Henry Baerlein The House of the Fighting-cocks (London: Leonard Parsons, 1922) p. 92.
„I am the night devoured by light.“
— Nikos Kazantzakis, könyv The Saviors of God
The Saviors of God (1923)
Kontextus: I am not the light, I am the night; but a flame stabs through my entrails and consumes me. I am the night devoured by light.
„[I first climbed Half Dome on] one of those brooding days that come just between Indian summer and winter, when the clouds are like living creatures.“
— John Muir Scottish-born American naturalist and author 1838 - 1914
"South Dome", San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin (part 11 of the 11 part series "Summering in the Sierra") dated 10 November 1875, published 18 November 1875; reprinted in John Muir: Summering in the Sierra, edited by Robert Engberg (University of Wisconsin Press, 1984) page 147
1870s
„Science is not distinguished from myth by science being literally true and myth only a type of poetic analogy. While their aims are different, both are composed of symbols we use to deal with a slippery world.“
— John Gray British philosopher 1948
Beyond the Last Thought: Freud's cigars and the long way round to Nirvana (p. 96)
The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths (2013)
„But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays
Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days;
Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays,
And one by one back in the Closet lays.“
— Omar Khayyám Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer 1048 - 1131
The Rubaiyat (1120)