
Shadwell, The Life of Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde. Vol. I, 108.
Letter (March 1890), published in The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, edited by Frederick R. Karl and Laurence Davies, Vol. 1, p. 43 ISBN 0521242169
Shadwell, The Life of Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde. Vol. I, 108.
“I shall grasp the soul's skirt with my hand
and stamp on the world's head with my foot.”
As quoted in Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew Poems (2001) by Bernard Lewis, p. 119
Context: I shall grasp the soul's skirt with my hand
and stamp on the world's head with my foot.
I shall trample Matter and Space with my horse,
beyond all Being I shall utter a great shout,
and in that moment when I shall be alone with Him,
I shall whisper secrets to all mankind.
Since I have neither sign nor name
I shall speak only of things unnamed and without sign.
Source: Discipleship (1937), Revenge, p. 142.
Context: Jesus is no draughtsman of political blueprints, he is the one who vanquished evil through suffering. It looked as though evil had triumphed on the cross, but the real victory belonged to Jesus. And the cross is the only justification for the precept of non-violence, for it alone can kindle a faith in the victory over evil which will enable men to obey that precept. And only such obedience is blessed with the promise that we shall be partakers of Christ's victory as well as his sufferings.
Speech at Zurich University (September 19, 1946) ( partial text http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/astonish.html) ( http://www.peshawar.ch/varia/winston.htm).
Post-war years (1945–1955)
“We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown.”
Space, Time and Gravitation (1920)
Context: We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.<!--p.201
Source: The Heart Mender: A Story of Second Chances
“Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.”
Rewards of Passion (Sheer Poetry) (1981)
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 9
"The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti, Part Three"
Sacco e Vanzetti (1971)