Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“So strange is Chance, so blind the purposes of men!”
Source: Thebaid, Book V, Line 718 (tr. J. H. Mozley)
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Pro fors et caeca futuri mens hominum!
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“Providence so often uses men and institutions to accomplish a purpose.”
Booker T. Washington
(1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor
Source: 1900s, Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter I: A Slave Among Slaves
Context: I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery. I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race. No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government. Having once got its tentacles fastened on to the economic and social life of the Republic, it was no easy matter for the country to relieve itself of the institution. Then, when we rid ourselves of prejudice, or racial feeling, and look facts in the face, we must acknowledge that, notwithstanding the cruelty and moral wrong of slavery, the ten million Negroes inhabiting this country, who themselves or whose ancestors went through the school of American slavery, are in a stronger and more hopeful condition, materially, intellectually, morally, and religiously, than is true of an equal number of black people in any other portion of the globe. This is so to such an extend that Negroes in this country, who themselves or whose forefathers went through the school of slavery, are constantly returning to Africa as missionaries to enlighten those who remained in the fatherland. This I say, not to justify slavery — on the other hand, I condemn it as an institution, as we all know that in America it was established for selfish and financial reasons, and not from a missionary motive — but to call attention to a fact, and to show how Providence so often uses men and institutions to accomplish a purpose.
A Happy Death (1971)
“Tis very strange Men should be so fond of being thought wickeder than they are.”
Daniel Defoe
(1660–1731) English trader, writer and journalist
A System of Magick (1726).
Dorothy Thompson
(1893–1961) American journalist and radio broadcaster
Dorothy Thompson’s Political Guide: A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)
Source: A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)
p. 77
Ernest Flagg
(1857–1947) American architect
Source: Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922), Ch. II
Peter Paul Rubens
(1577–1640) Flemish painter
In a letter to Pierre Dupuy, Sept. / Oct. 1627; as quoted by Simon Schrama, in Rembrandt's eyes, Alfred A. Knopf - Borzoi Books, New York 1999, p. 248
1625 - 1640
“There is none so blind as they that won't see.”
Jonathan Swift
(1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3