“A hand cannot write on itself.”
Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director
From the ninth book, "The Book of Secrets"
The Pillow Book
“A poor gasping, blushing creature, with trembling knees and twitching hands, is a painful sight to every one, and if it cannot cure itself, the sooner it goes and hangs itself the better.”
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
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Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch (1824–1903) Dutch painter of the Hague School (1824-1903)
as quoted by E. C. Cady, in 'The Art of Johannes Hendrick Weissenbruch' https://ia801702.us.archive.org/33/items/jstor-25540452/25540452.pdf, in 'Brush and Pencil, Volume 12', April 1904, p. 51
Jean de La Bruyère book Les Caractères
Le sage guérit de l'ambition par l'ambition même; il tend à de si grandes choses, qu'il ne peut se borner à ce qu'on appelle des trésors, des postes, la fortune et la faveur.
Aphorism 43
Les Caractères (1688), Du mérite personnel
Jeremy Bentham book An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
Source: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789; 1823), Ch. 10: Of Motives
“Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.”
James Anthony Froude (1818–1894) English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine
Oceana, or, England and Her Colonies (1886) [C. Scribner's Sons, 1972, 396 pages], p. 67
Context: Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, A Christian Movement in a Revolutionary Age (1965)
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Les idées dévorent les siècles comme les hommes sont dévorés par leurs passions. Quand l'homme sera guéri, l'humanité se guérira peut-être.
Source: About Catherine de' Medici (1842), Part II: The Ruggieri's Secret, Ch. V: The Alchemists.