Robert Walton in "Letter 1"
Frankenstein (1818)
“Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul can focus its intellectual eye”
Robert Walton in "Letter 1"
Source: Frankenstein (1818)
Context: I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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“nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(1797–1851) English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer
Diogenes Laërtius
(180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers
Pyrrho, 11.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 9: Uncategorized philosophers and Skeptics
Max Beckmann
(1884–1950) German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer
Source: 1930s, On my Painting (1938), p. 14
John Dee
(1527–1608) English mathematican, astrologer and antiquary
The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara (1570)
Context: There is (gentle reader) nothing (the works of God only set apart) which so much beautifies and adorns the soul and mind of man as does knowledge of the good arts and sciences. Many arts there are which beautify the mind of man; but of all none do more garnish and beautify it than those arts which are called mathematical, unto the knowledge of which no man can attain, without perfect knowledge and instruction of the principles, grounds, and Elements of Geometry.
“Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
(1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
E 11
Variant translations: Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Nothing contributes more to a person's peace of mind than having no opinions at all.
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook E (1775 - 1776)
“By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.”
IV, 3
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV
James Joyce
book
Stephen Hero
Stephen Hero (1944)
Context: Imagine my glimpses at that clock as the gropings of a spiritual eye which seeks to adjust its vision to an exact focus. The moment the focus is reached the object is epiphanised. It is just in this epiphany that I find the third, the supreme quality of beauty. … No esthetic theory, pursued Stephen relentlessly, is of any value which investigates with the aid of the lantern of tradition. What we symbolise in black the Chinaman may symbolise in yellow: each has his own tradition. Greek beauty laughs at Coptic beauty and the American Indian derides them both. It is almost impossible to reconcile all tradition whereas it is by no means impossible to find the justification of every form of beauty which has ever been adored on the earth by an examination into the mechanism of esthetic apprehension whether it be dressed in red, white, yellow or black. We have no reason for thinking that the Chinaman has a different system of digestion from that which we have though our diets are quite dissimilar. The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action.
Patañjali
(-200–-150 BC) ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
The Light of the Soul: Its Science and Effect : a paraphrase of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, with commentary by Alice A. Bailey, (1927)