Source: Night
“What will the stream become in its lengthened course, if it be so turbid at its source?”
Pietro Metastasio (1698–1782) Italian poet and librettist (born 3 January 1698, died 12 April 1782)
Qual diverrà quel fiume,
Nel lungo suo cammino,
Se al fonte ancor vicino
É torbido così?
Part I.
Morte d' Abele (1732)
Michael Hammer (1948–2008) American academic
Source: Beyond reengineering, 1990, p. i. Preface
“The principal source of the harm done by the State is the fact that power is its chief end.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Principles of Social Reconstruction (1917), Ch. II: The State
1910s
“A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory.”
Whittaker Chambers (1901–1961) Defected Communist spy
Source: Cold Friday (1964), p. 40
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
Young India (8 April 1926)
1920s
“No ray of Light can shine
if severed from its source.
Without my inner Light
I lose my course.”
Angelus Silesius (1624–1677) German writer
The Cherubinic Wanderer
“A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.”
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
George Holmes Howison (1834–1916) American philosopher
Source: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), Modern Science and Pantheism, p.77
“Religion, then, is Love's Celestial Force
That penetrates thro' all to Its True Source”
John Byrom (1692–1763) Poet, inventor of a shorthand system
St. 7 & 8
Miscellaneous Poems (1773), Divine Love, The Essential Characteristic of True Religion
Context: Religion, then, is Love's Celestial Force
That penetrates thro' all to Its True Source;
Loves all along, but with proportion'd Bent,
As Creatures further the Divine Ascent,
Not to the Skies or Stars, but to the part
That will be always uppermost, — the Heart, There is the Seat, as Holy Writings tell,
Where the Most High Himself delights to dwell;
Whither attracting the desirous Will
To its true Rest, He saves it from all Ill,
Gives it to find in His Abyssal Love
An Heav'n within, — in other Words, Above.
