XVI. 211–212 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Ῥηΐδιον δὲ θεοῖσι, τοὶ οὐρανὸν εὐρὺν ἔχουσιν, ἠμὲν κυδῆναι θνητὸν βροτὸν ἠδὲ κακῶσαι.
Preface to the Code of Hammurabi (translated by Leonard William King, 1910).
Stanza 6
An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)
“Only God, the Exalted, is the light; everything else is darkness.”
Theology and Mysticism
Hell Is the Absence of God; first appeared in Starlight 3, 2001.
Stories of Your Life and Others (2002)
“Beware of the man whose god is in the skies.”
#83
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
“It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.”
Book 7 , Ch. 10.
The Histories
Source: Culture and Anarchy (1869), Ch. I, Sweetness and Light
Context: The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. He who works for sweetness and light, works to make reason and the will of God prevail. He who works for machinery, he who works for hatred, works only for confusion. Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
“The doctrines of grace humble man without degrading him and exalt him without inflating him.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 334.
