Source: Flaubert's Parrot
"Preface to Poems" (1854)
Reverend John Hale
Source: The Crucible (1953)
Source: The Social Construction of Reality, 1966, p. 25
“The man of mark is never appreciated, either in his lifetime or in his own country.”
L’uomo insigne non è mai apprezzato nè in vita, nè in patria.
I Preguidizi del Paesi Piccoli, Act II., Sc. V. — (L’Uffiziale).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 338.
Source: The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), Chapter 2, page 87 (New World Library, 2008)
Context: (...) we today (in so far as we are unbelievers, or, if believers, in so far as our inherited beliefs fail to represent the real problems of contemporary life) must face alone, or, at best, with only tentative, impromptu, an not often very effective guidance. This is our problem as modern 'enlightened' individuals, for whom all gods and devils have been rationalized out of existence.
"Verses On A Cat" (1800), St. 2, as published in Life of Shelley (1858) by Thomas Jefferson Hogg, p. 21
“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”
[…] it's the best book we've had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.
Part I, Ch. 1
Green Hills of Africa (1935)
“Every modern state is totalitarian. It recognizes no limit either factual or legal.”
Source: The Ethics of Freedom (1973 - 1974), p. 396
Context: Every modern state is totalitarian. It recognizes no limit either factual or legal. This is why I maintain that no state in the modern world is legitimate. No present-day authority can claim to be instructed by God, for all authority is set in the framework of a totalitarian state. This is why I decide for anarchy.
