“Shadow in the flame. The flame is not so bright to itself as to those on whom it shines: so too the wise man.”
Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 570
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation
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Friedrich Nietzsche655
German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and cl… 1844–1900Related quotes
Dora Read Goodale (1866–1953) U.S. poet
Cardinal Flower, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 89.
“One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.”
Anne Rice The Tale of the Body Thief
Source: The Tale of the Body Thief
“Bright-flaming, heat-full fire,
The source of motion.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) French writer
First Week, Second Day. Compare: "Heat considered as a Mode of Motion" (title of a treatise, 1863), John Tyndall.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)
Robert Williams Buchanan (1841–1901) Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist
Balder the Beautiful (1877)
Context: Along the melting shores of earth
An emerald flame there ran,
Forest and field grew bright, and mirth
Gladdened the flocks of man. Then glory grew on earth and heaven,
Full glory of full day!
Then the bright rainbow's colours seven
On every iceberg lay!In Balder's hand Christ placed His own,
And it was golden weather,
And on that berg as on a throne
The Brethren stood together!And countless voices far and wide
Sang sweet beneath the sky —
"All that is beautiful shall abide,
All that is base shall die.".
“Saints live in flames; wise men, next to them.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Tears and Saints (1937)
“Flames were rising from the waters and in the flames a blue man lived.”
Black Elk (1863–1950) Oglala Lakota leader
Black Elk Speaks (1961)
“You're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other.”
Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell
Variant: We chase away the shadows around each other.
Source: The Indigo Spell