“The fog is clearing; life is a matter of taste.”
Frank Wedekind (1864–1918) German playwright
Source: Spring's Awakening
“It is not the clear-sighted who lead the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm mental fog.”
Victory: An Island Tale http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6378/6378-h/6378-h.htm (1915), Part II, ch. 3
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“Out of Gods blessing into the warme Sunne.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel book Lectures on the Philosophy of History
Often abbreviated to: Nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion.
Variant translation: We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without enthusiasm.
Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1832), Volume 1
Variant: We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Context: We assert then that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and — if interest be called passion, inasmuch as the whole individuality, to the neglect of all other actual or possible interests and claims, is devoted to an object with every fibre of volition, concentrating all its desires and powers upon it — we may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion.
Hideki Tōjō (1884–1948) former Prime Minister of Japan and Minister of War executed in 1948
Written in his prison diary
1940s
