
The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1625), Of Parents and Children
Source: The Plot Against America
The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1625), Of Parents and Children
Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 197.
“The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 32
As quoted in Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith, p. 203, by William Kolbrener. Editor Michal Michelson. Editorial Routledge, 2016. ISBN 1317100093.
“Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.”
Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6
1930s
Source: 'I and my purpose', in the journal 'Merz', no. 21, (1931)