Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
Report on the Activities of the Council of People’s Commissars (24 January 1918); Collected Works, Vol. 26, pp. 459-61.
1910s
The New Marvel in Photography (1896)
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
Report on the Activities of the Council of People’s Commissars (24 January 1918); Collected Works, Vol. 26, pp. 459-61.
1910s
“When the time of judgement comes, we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Richard Maurice Bucke (1837–1902) prominent Canadian psychiatrist in the late 19th century
Dedication
Cosmic Consciousness (1901)
Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth
Episode 1, Opening introduction voice-over
The Power of Myth (1988)
“The lamps are going out all over Europe: we shall not see them lit again in our life-time”
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862–1933) British Liberal statesman
Vol. 2, ch. 18, p. 20 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=d68gSzbih8QC&q=remarked<br>On his famous remark, in August of 1914, about the impending outbreak of the First World War<br>Cf. John Alfred Spender: Life, Journalism and Politics, Vol. 2, Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York 1927. Chp. 20, p. 14 archive.org http://www.archive.org/stream/lifejournalismpo02jasprich#page/14/mode/2up and w:The lamps are going out. <br class="br">Twenty-five Years (1925) <br class="br">Context: A friend came to see me on one of the evenings of the last week — he thinks it was on Monday, August 3rd. We were standing at a window of my room in the Foreign Office. It was getting dusk, and the lamps were being lit in the space below... My friend recalls that I remarked on this with the words, "The lamps are going out all over Europe: we shall not see them lit again in our life-time."
“And like lambs to a slaughter we shall follow…”
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
And Sir Richard said again: "We be all good English men.
Let us bang these dogs of Seville, the children of the devil,
For I never turn'd my back upon Don or devil yet."
St. 4
The Revenge (1878)
Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
Summations, Chapter 47
Context: Two things belong to our soul as duty: the one is that we reverently marvel, the other that we meekly suffer, ever enjoying in God. For He would have us understand that we shall in short time see clearly in Himself all that we desire.
And notwithstanding all this, I beheld and marvelled greatly: What is the mercy and forgiveness of God? For by the teaching that I had afore, I understood that the mercy of God should be the forgiveness of His wrath after the time that we have sinned. For methought that to a soul whose meaning and desire is to love, the wrath of God was harder than any other pain, and therefore I took that the forgiveness of His wrath should be one of the principal points of His mercy. But howsoever I might behold and desire, I could in no wise see this point in all the Shewing.
But how I understood and saw of the work of mercy, I shall tell somewhat, as God will give me grace. I understood this: Man is changeable in this life, and by frailty and overcoming falleth into sin: he is weak and unwise of himself, and also his will is overlaid. And in this time he is in tempest and in sorrow and woe; and the cause is blindness: for he seeth not God. For if he saw God continually, he should have no mischievous feeling, nor any manner of motion or yearning that serveth to sin.
Thus saw I, and felt in the same time; and methought that the sight and the feeling was high and plenteous and gracious in comparison with that which our common feeling is in this life; but yet I thought it was but small and low in comparison with the great desire that the soul hath to see God.
Augustus De Morgan (1806–1871) British mathematician, philosopher and university teacher (1806-1871)
"Short Supplementary Remarks on the First Six Books of Euclid's Elements" (Oct, 1848) Companion to the Almanac for 1849 as quoted by Sir Thomas Little Heath, The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements Vol.1 https://books.google.com/books?id=UhgPAAAAIAAJ, Introduction and Books I, II. Preface, p. v.