“Let every man look before he leaps.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 14.
“Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.”
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Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 2
“Listen to the words long written down,
When the man comes around.”
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Song lyrics, American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002), The Man Comes Around
Context: Whoever is unjust, let him be unjust still.
Whoever is righteous, let him be righteous still.
Whoever is filthy, let him be filthy still.
Listen to the words long written down,
When the man comes around.
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Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Tangled Up In Blue
“Every step is a first step if it's a step in the right direction.”
Terry Pratchett book I Shall Wear Midnight
Source: I Shall Wear Midnight
“Every star, and every pow'r,
Look down on this important hour”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
Queen Elinor in Rosamond (c. 1707), Act III, sc. ii.
Context: Every star, and every pow'r,
Look down on this important hour:
Lend your protection and defence
Every guard of innocence!
Help me my Henry to assuage,
To gain his love or bear his rage.
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure,
Hast thou more of pain or pleasure!
Chill'd with tears,
Kill'd with fears,
Endless torments dwell about thee:
Yet who would live, and live without thee!
Babur (1483–1530) 1st Mughal Emperor
As quoted in The Baburnama : Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor, as translated by Wheeler M. Thackston (2002), p. xxvii
Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society
Furchtbares hat die Menschheit sich antun müssen, bis das Selbst, der identische, zweckgerichtete, männliche Charakter des Menschen geschaffen war, und etwas davon wird noch in jeder Kindheit wiederholt.
E. Jephcott, trans., p. 26
Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment] (1944)