“Grace has been defined the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.”
William Hazlitt book The Round Table
"On Manner"
The Round Table (1815-1817)
“These unhappy agents found what had already been found in abundance on Earth—a nightmare of meaningless without end. The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
Outwardness lost, at last, its imagined attractions.
Only inwardness remained to be explored.
Only the human soul remained terra incognita.
This was the beginning of goodness and wisdom.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, book The Sirens of Titan
Source: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 1 “Between Timid and Timbuktu” (p. 8)
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Emily Brontë (1818–1848) English novelist and poet
The Prisoner (October 1845)
Context: p>But first a hush of peace, a soundless calm descends;
The struggle of distress and fierce impatience ends
Mute music sooths my breast — unuttered harmony
That I could never dream till earth was lost to me.Then dawns the Invisible; the Unseen its truth reveals;
My outward sense is gone, my inward essence feels —
Its wings are almost free, its home, its harbour found;
Measuring the gulf, it stoops and dares the final bound — O, dreadful is the check — intense the agony
When the ear begins to hear and the eye begins to see;
When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again,
The soul to feel the flesh and the flesh to feel the chain.Yet I would lose no sting, would wish no torture less;
The more that anguish racks the earlier it will bless;
And robed in fires of Hell, or bright with heavenly shine
If it but herald Death, the vision is divine —</p
Thomas Cahill (1940) American scholar and writer
Source: Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003), Ch.VII The Way They Went: Greco-Roman Meets Judeo-Christian
Context: For the most part, in the union of Greco-Roman with Judeo-Christian, the Greco-Roman turn of mind combined with Judeo-Christian values. While the outward form of the Western world remained Greco-Roman, its content became gradually Judeo-Christian.
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
O World, Thou Choosest Not http://www.bartleby.com/236/270.html (1894) <br class="br">Other works
Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814–1880) American priest
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, P. 286.
“All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems — but God remains.”
Mary Augusta Ward book Robert Elsmere
Robert Elsmere. Book iv. Chap. xxvi, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
