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Shūsaku Endō 7
author from Japan 1923–1996Related quotes
Essay 1, Section 13
On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)
“"Rationalism" is a historical concept that contains within itself a world of contradictions.”
Source: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905; 1920), Ch. 2 : The "Spirit" of Capitalism
No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899)
"If Only This Could Be Said" To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays by Czesŀaw Miŀosz (2001) edited and translated by Bogdana Carpenter and Madeline G. Levine <!-- publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux -->
Context: Evil grows and bears fruit, which is understandable, because it has logic and probability on its side and also, of course, strength. The resistance of tiny kernels of good, to which no one grants the power of causing far-reaching consequences, is entirely mysterious, however. Such seeming nothingness not only lasts but contains within itself enormous energy which is revealed gradually.
“The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.”
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part 1: The Myth of Male Power, p. 13.
Source: The Witch of Portobello
address " What is Science? http://www.fotuva.org/feynman/what_is_science.html", presented at the fifteenth annual meeting of the National Science Teachers Association, in New York City (1966), published in The Physics Teacher, volume 7, issue 6 (1969), p. 313-320
Source: Biographia Literaria (1817), Ch. I