“where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?”
Source: Les Misérables
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Victor Hugo 308
French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802–1885Related quotes
“The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.”
A Vindication of Natural Society (1756)
Context: A good parson once said, that where mystery begins, religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins, justice ends? It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery. The lawyers, as well as the theologians, have erected another reason besides natural reason; and the result has been, another justice besides natural justice. They have so bewildered the world and themselves in unmeaning forms and ceremonies, and so perplexed the plainest matters with metaphysical jargon, that it carries the highest danger to a man out of that profession, to make the least step without their advice and assistance. Thus, by confining to themselves the knowledge of the foundation of all men's lives and properties, they have reduced all mankind into the most abject and servile dependence. We are tenants at the will of these gentlemen for everything; and a metaphysical quibble is to decide whether the greatest villain breathing shall meet his deserts, or escape with impunity, or whether the best man in the society shall not be reduced to the lowest and most despicable condition it affords. In a word, my Lord, the injustice, delay, puerility, false refinement, and affected mystery of the law are such, that many who live under it come to admire and envy the expedition, simplicity, and equality of arbitrary judgments.
“Everything has to end before it can begin.”
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
“And who’s to say where life ceases and theater begins”
Source: Triton (1976), Chapter 3 “Avoiding Kangaroos” (p. 113)
“No one can any longer believe that an object ends where another begins.”
Quote from Boccioni's text 'Dynamism of a Speeding Horse & Houses', 1914/15
Boccioni is here referring to the starting photography of 'moving horses' c. 1914
1914 - 1916
“Think where man's glory most begins and ends
And say my glory was I had such friends.”
The Municipal Gallery Revisited http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1659/, st. 7
Last Poems (1936-1939)
Variant: Think where man's glory most begins and ends. And say my glory was I had such friends.
Context: You that would judge me, do not judge alone
This book or that, come to this hallowed place
Where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon;
Ireland's history in their lineaments trace;
Think where man's glory most begins and ends
And say my glory was I had such friends.
“The doctor begins where the apothecary ends, and the clergyman where the doctor ends.”
Pt. II, Lib. III, Ch. V.
Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1604)
Introduction, p. xiii
"Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982)