“It is not possible to deceive or go beyond the will of Zeus.”
Hesiod Greek poet
Source: The Theogony (c. 700 BC), line 613.
““Is there anyone in Chasm City she hasn’t deceived?”
“Possibly, somewhere, but only as an extreme theoretical possibility.””
— Alastair Reynolds, book Chasm City
Source: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 29 (p. 481).
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““Don’t you agree with me?”
“On some distant theoretical level, just possibly.””
Alastair Reynolds book Chasm City
Source: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 12 (p. 177).
Hendrik Werkman (1882–1945) Dutch artist
version in original Dutch (origineel citaat van Hendrik Werkman, in het Nederlands): ..niet het bekende paradijs, maar het onbekende, ergens in een werelddeel dat nog door geen mensch uit de cultuurstaten is ontdekt – daarheen ben ik gevlucht [in zijn prenten!] omdat het in onze wereld haast niet meer uit te houden is.
in his letter (nr. 143) to Julia Henkels, 15 July 1942; as cited in H. N. Werkman - Leven & Werk - 1882-1945, ed. A. de Vries, J. van der Spek, D. Sijens, M. Jansen; WBooks, Groninger Museum / Stichting Werkman, 2015 (transl: Fons Heijnsbroek), p. 120
Werkman is referring to his series prints 'Vrouweneiland / Women-island', D-288 - D-311, he made in 1942]
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Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993) British-American economist
1950s, General Systems Theory - The Skeleton of Science, 1956
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Source: Why We Fail as Christians (1919), p. 78
Context: Tolstoy deplored all the modern tendencies toward immense congregations of people in limited areas, on the ground that they were making more and more impossible the truly Christian life. In cities the rich find little restraint to their lusts, while the lusts of the poor are greater there than in the country, and they satisfy them up to the limit of their means. In the country, Tolstoy could still see the possibility of men living a Christian life; in the cities he saw no such possibility. Cities had therefore to be uprooted and destroyed. The people had to get back to the soil.
“We must try, as much as possible, not to mistrust anyone.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
