Comprehension
Source: One Minute Wisdom (1989)
“Every one is in a small way the image of God.”
Exemplumque dei quisque est in imagine parva.
Book IV, line 895.
Astronomica
Introduction
The Life of Poetry (1949)
Context: In time of crisis, we summon up our strength.
Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that can leap to our quickening, every memory that can make us know our power. And this luck is more than it seems to be: it depends on the long preparation of the self to be used.
In time of the crises of the spirit, we are aware of all our need, our need for each other and our need for our selves. We call up, with all the strength of summoning we have, our fullness.
On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters (1923)
Context: The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity — but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage. We must compress into a single second what was held before in a sixty-second minute.
More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian (1856), p. 207
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 154
Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 72.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)
Section II, Chap. I.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part VI
homily at the celebration of the Mass to mark the Golden Jubilee anniversary of Dei Verbum https://cnsng.org/makepdf.php?tab=1365 (November 23, 2015)
