Section 9 : Ethical Outlook
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: The frontier of the higher life is everywhere contiguous to the common life, and we can cross the border at any moment. The higher life is as real as the grosser things in which we put our trust. But our eyes must be anointed so that we may see it.
The office of the religious teacher is to be a seer, and to make others see, and thus to win them into the upward way.
“Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.”
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Striking Thoughts (2000)
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Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and f… 1940–1973Related quotes
Games for Actors and non-Actors (1992)
Context: In truth the Theatre of the Oppressed has no end, because everything which happens in it must extend into life…. The Theatre of the Oppressed is located precisely on the frontier between fiction and reality – and this border must be crossed. If the show starts in fiction, its objective is to become integrated into reality, into life. Now in 1992, when so many certainties have become so many doubts, when so many dreams have withered on exposure to sunlight, and so many hopes have become as many deceptions – now that we are living through times and situations of great perplexity, full of doubts and uncertainties, now more than ever I believe it is time for a theatre which, at its best, will ask the right questions at the right times. Let us be democratic and ask our audiences to tell us their desires, and let us show them alternatives. Let us hope that one day – please, not too far in the future – we’ll be able to convince or force our governments, our leaders, to do the same; to ask their audiences – us – what they should do, so as to make this world a place to live and be happy in – yes, it is possible – rather than just a vast market in which we sell our goods and our souls. Let’s hope. Let’s work for it!
“Oh, young Lochinvar is come out of the West,
Through all the wide Border his steed was the best.”
Canto V, st. 12 (Lochinvar, st. 1).
Marmion (1808)
Section 9 : Ethical Outlook
Life and Destiny (1913)
The Law of the Yukon http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/781.html (1907)
“The frontier that remains is is the interior one, the most forbidding and mysterious frontier.”
Source: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 7, The Possibility of Extravagant Waste, p. 189.