Book III, Ch. 6, sec. 37
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)
Jean Monnet 1888-1979
“Men are what their mothers made them.”
Fate
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
F 84
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)
Source: Time is the Simplest Thing (1961), Chapter 32 (pp. 245-246)
“I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.”
Book III, Ch. 1
Joseph Andrews (1742)
“Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.”
Source: An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791), p. 460
The Historical Illuminatus as spoken by Sigismundo Celine
Context: The creative faculty, the god-power, is not used here with anything less than literalness. When beauty was created by a godly mind, beauty existed, as surely as the paintings of Botticelli or the concerti of Vivaldi exist. When mercy was created, mercy existed. When guilt was created, guilt existed. Out of a meaningless and pointless existence, we have made meaning and purpose; but since this creative act happens only when we relax after great strain, we feel it as 'pouring into us' from elsewhere. Thus, we do not know our own godhood and we are perpetually swindled by those who assure us that it is indeed elsewhere, but they can give us access to it, for a reasonable fee. And when we as a species were ignorant enough to be duped in that way, the swindlers went one step further, invented original sin and other horrors of that sort, and made us even more 'dependent' upon them.
