
“Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now….”
Source: The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex
El infierno y el paraíso me parecen desproporcionados. Los actos de los hombres no merecen tanto.
As quoted in Borges Verbal (1999) edited by Pilar Bravo and Mario Paoletti, p. 156
El infierno y el paraíso me parecen desproporcionados. Los actos de los hombres no merecen tanto.
“Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now….”
Source: The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex
“You do not so act as to avoid Hell and enter Heaven.”
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 27
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3 (2015), p. 245
Statement of 1951, in Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru Vol. 5 (1987), p. 321
Context: I want to go rapidly towards my objective. But fundamentally even the results of action do not worry me so much. Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction. In my general outlook on life I am a socialist and it is a socialist order that I should like to see established in India and the world.
As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors, Both Ancient and Modern (1891) edited by Tryon Edwards. p. 327.
1890s and attributed from posthumous publications