“Monday
In Other Place. Did nothing.”
Jonathan Stroud (1970) British writer of fantasy fiction
The Bartimaeus Trilogy Official Website, Bart's Journal
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)
“Monday
In Other Place. Did nothing.”
Jonathan Stroud (1970) British writer of fantasy fiction
The Bartimaeus Trilogy Official Website, Bart's Journal
Aurangzeb (1618–1707) Sixth Mughal Emperor
Saqi Mustad Khan, Maasir-i-Alamgiri, translated and annotated by Jadunath Sarkar, Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta, 1947, reprinted by Oriental Books Reprint Corporation, Delhi, 1986. quoted in Shourie, Arun (2014). Eminent historians: Their technology, their line, their fraud. Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India : HarperCollins Publishers.
Quotes from late medieval histories, 1680s
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.”
Archimedes (-287–-212 BC) Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer
Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) Peintre Néerlandais
Quote of Mondrian before 1930; as cited in 'The New Art – The New Life', Piet Mondrian, op. cit. Introd. Note 1., 1931
1930's
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) Indian lawyer, statesman, and writer, first Prime Minister of India
Letter to Mahatma Gandhi (1933), as quoted in "Nehru's Faith" by Sunil Khilnani, in The New Republic (24 May 2004), p. 27 http://web.archive.org/web/20041022115314/http://www.sais-jhu.edu/pubaffairs/SAISarticles04/Khilnani_NR_052404.pdf <br class="br">Context: Religion is not familiar ground for me, and as I have grown older, I have definitely drifted away from it. I have something else in its place, something older than just intellect and reason, which gives me strength and hope. Apart from this indefinable and indefinite urge, which may have just a tinge of religion in it and yet is wholly different from it, I have grown entirely to rely on the workings of the mind. Perhaps they are weak supports to rely upon, but, search as I will, I can see no better ones.
Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) American abolitionist, social activist, and poet
Beyond the Veil
Context: The reason which placed the stars, the sense of proportion which we recognize in the planetary system, finds its correspondence in this brain of ours. We question every feature of what we see, think, and feel. We try every link of the chain and find it sound if we ourselves are sound. This power of remotest question and assent is not of to-day nor yesterday.
It transcends all bounds of time and space. It weighs the sun, explores the pathway of the stars, and writes, having first carefully read, the history of earth and heaven. It moves in company with the immortals. How much of it is mortal? Only so much as a small strip of earth can cover. These remains are laid away with reverence, having served their time. But what has become of the wonderful power which made them alive? It belongs to that in nature which cannot die.
Alex Salmond (1954) Scottish National Party politician and former First Minister of Scotland
Scotland in the World Forum (February 4, 2008), Church of Scotland (May 25, 2009)
Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician
The Dark Of The Sun, written with Jeff Lynne
Lyrics, Into The Great Wide Open (1991)