Die Liebe herrscht nicht, aber sie bildet; und das ist mehr!
Das Märchen (1795), as translated by Hermann J. Weigand in Wisdom and Experience (1949); also translated elsewhere as The Fairy-Tale, The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily, and simply The Tale]
Variant translations:
Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.
As translated by Thomas Carlyle The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily (1832)
Love rules (and reigns) not, but it forms (builds and 'trains'); and that is more!
As quoted in "'Human Immortalities : The Old and the New" by Thaddeus Burr Wakeman, in The Open Court Vol. XX, No. 1 (January 1906), p. 104
“Dominance is as dominance does.”
Al Gore (1948) 45th Vice President of the United States
Quotes, NYU Speech (2004)
Context: More disturbing still was their frequent use of the word "dominance" to describe their strategic goal, because an American policy of dominance is as repugnant to the rest of the world as the ugly dominance of the helpless, naked Iraqi prisoners has been to the American people. Dominance is as dominance does.
“Leadership does not mean domination.”
Haile Selassie (1892–1975) Emperor of Ethiopia
Speech on Leadership in Speeches Delivered on Various Occasions, May 1957-December 1959 (1960), p. 138.
Context: Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others.
The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations.
Samuel Gompers (1850–1924) American Labor Leader[AFL]
The Shoe workers' journal, Volume 16 (1915) p. 4
Variant: What does labor want? We want more school houses and less jails. More books and less guns. More learning and less vice. More leisure and less greed. More justice and less revenge. We want more … opportunities to cultivate our better natures.
Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832) French economist and businessman
Source: A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832), Book I, On Production, Chapter IX, p. 104
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) Swiss philosopher
[2005, Stations of Wisdom, World Wisdom, 93, 978-0-94153218-1]
God, Reverential fear and love
“Only by being cultivated does a human being … become altogether human and permeated by humanity.”
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) German poet, critic and scholar
Nur durch die Bildung wird der Mensch, der es ganz ist überall menschlich und von Menschheit durchdrungen.
“Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 65
Agostino Vallini (1940) Catholic cardinal
Pope’s vicar calls on teachers to educate in hope and be witnesses of Christ https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/14872/popes-vicar-calls-on-teachers-to-educate-in-hope-and-be-witnesses-of-christ (23 January 2009)
“The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.”
Noah Webster (1758–1843) lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author
“The more a man cultivates the arts, the less randy he becomes.”
Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet
Plus l'homme cultive les arts, moins il bande.
Variant translation: The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates.
Journaux intimes (1864–1867; published 1887), Mon cœur mis à nu (1864)
