
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)
Source: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1974), Chapter 13 (p. 124)
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)
“My choice is the old world — my choice, my need, my life.”
Notebook entry, Boston, (25 November 1881).
Is God a Taoist? (1977) http://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/godTaoist.html
“Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.”
“The history of free men is never really written by chance - but by choice. Their choice.”
Address in Pittsburgh http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/education/bsa/citizenship_merit_badge/eisenhower_citizenship_quotations.pdf (9 October 1956)
1950s
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)
Context: Experience proved that man's power of choice in action was very far from absolute, and logic seemed to require that every choice should have some predetermining cause which decided the will to act. Science affirmed that choice was not free,— could not be free,— without abandoning the unity of force and the foundation of law. Society insisted that its choice must be left free, whatever became of science or unity. Saint Thomas was required to illustrate the theory of liberum arbitrium by choosing a path through these difficulies, where path there was obviously none.
“Free choice is a very precious thing.”
Around the World with Nellie Bly by Emily Hahn