“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
A Mortal Antipathy (1885) This statement is often misquoted as "Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness".
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
Ronald David Laing (1927–1989) Scottish psychiatrist and author
"Although innumerable beings have been led to Nirvana no being has been led to Nirvana", §5, p. 85
Knots (1970)
Maimónides book The Guide for the Perplexed
Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Introduction
Context: Having concluded these introductory remarks I proceed to examine those expressions, to the true meaning of which, as apparent from the context, it is necessary to direct your attention. This book will then be a key admitting to places the gates of which would otherwise be closed. When the gates are opened and men enter, their souls will enjoy repose, their eyes will be gratified, and even their bodies, after all toil and labour, will be refreshed.
Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Bhakti
Ernst Ruska (1906–1988) German physicist
Das Lichtmikroskop öffnete das erste Tor zum Mikrokosmos. Das Elektronenmikroskop öffnete das zweite Tor zum Mikrokosmos. Was werden wir finden wenn wir das dritte Tor öffnen? <br class="br">as quoted by Nan Yao, director of the Imaging and Analysis Center at the Princeton Materials Institute, in the Princeton Weekly Bulletin, February 26, 2001, Vol. 90, No. 18 http://www.princeton.edu/~iac/pwb2_26b.html.
H.P. Lovecraft book The Dunwich Horror
"The Dunwich Horror " - Written Summer 1928; first published in Weird Tales, 13, No. 4, (April 1929)<!-- p. 481-508 -->
The Thing on the Doorstep (1937), first published in Weird Tales
Fiction
Context: Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They have trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread.
“Fire opens the gates of victory.”
Alexander Suvorov (1730–1800) Russian military commander
From "The Science of Victory," 1796, quoted in Bragin "Field Marshal Kutuzov," 1944.