“None has begun to think how divine he himself is and how certain the future is.”

— Walt Whitman , Starting from Paumanok

Starting from Paumanok. 7
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "None has begun to think how divine he himself is and how certain the future is." by Walt Whitman?

Walt Whitman 181

American poet, essayist and journalist 1819–1892

Related quotes

“A man should also be prepared to be sufficient unto himself—to dwell within himself alone, even as God dwells with Himself alone… So should we also be able to converse with ourselves, to need none else beside, to sigh for no distraction, to bend our thoughts upon the Divine Administration, and how we stand related to all else; to observe how human accidents touched us of old, and how they touch us now; what things they are that still have power to hurt us, and how they may be cured and removed; to perfect what needs perfecting as Reason would direct.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

98
Golden Sayings of Epictetus

“Love is divine in our belief
Of its eternity — how vain,
When we have known that Love can die,
To think that he can live again!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

4th February 1826) The Past (under the pen name Iole
The London Literary Gazette, 1826

“It suffices to remember how many sorrows he is spared who no longer thinks too many thoughts, how much more "in accordance with reality" a person behaves when he affirms that the real is the right, how much more capacity to use the machinery falls to the person who integrates himself with it uncomplainingly.”

Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society

Source: On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening (1938), p. 286

“He would listen, he said, to a great man talking, with one eye on the cat on the rug, thinking to himself how much more the cat knew than the man.”

John Buchan (1875–1940) British politician

Space (1912)
Context: Remember his mind and no other part of him lived in his new world. He said it gave him an odd sense of detachment to sit in a room among people, and to know that nothing there but himself had any relation at all to the infinite strange world of Space that flowed around them. He would listen, he said, to a great man talking, with one eye on the cat on the rug, thinking to himself how much more the cat knew than the man.