“The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.”
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
“One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.”
Avot of Rabbi Natan (c. 700 – 900)
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Isaac Asimov
(1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
As quoted in Omni's Screen Flights/Screen Fantasies (1984) edited by Danny Peary, p. 5
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“Man exists in a world of his own creation.”
Alexander Bryan Johnson
(1786–1867) United States philosopher and banker
Lecture I. Introductory.
A Treatise on Language: Or, The Relation which Words Bear to Things, in Four Parts (1836)
Context: Man exists in a world of his own creation. He cannot step, but on ground transformed by culture; nor look, but on objects produced by art. The animals which constitute his food are unknown to nature, while trees, fruits, and herbs, are the trophies of his labour. In himself nearly every natural impulse is suppressed as vicious, and every mortification solicited as a virtue. His language, actions, sentiments, and desires are nearly all factitious. Stupendous in achievement, he is boundless in attempt. Having subdued the earth's surface, he would explore its centre; having vanquished diseases, he would subdue death. Unsatisfied with recording the past, he would anticipate the future. Uncontented with subjugating the ocean, he would traverse the air. Success but sharpens his avidity, and facility but augments his impatience.
Albert Einstein
(1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Source: The World As I See It
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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Source: Man and Superman
“One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.”
Source: The Dharma Bums
The Woman's Bible (1898)
“Only a man who is at one with the world can be at one with himself.”
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
(1772–1829) German poet, critic and scholar
Nur wer einig ist mit der Welt kann einig seyn mit sich selbst.
“Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 130
“There is but one Temple in the World; and that is the Body of Man.”
Novalis
(1772–1801) German poet and writer
Variant translation: There is but one temple in the Universe and that is the Body of Man.
As inscribed on the Library of Congress, quoted in Handbook of the New Library of Congress (1897) by Herbert Small, p. 53
Novalis (1829)
Context: There is but one Temple in the World; and that is the Body of Man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this Revelation in the Flesh. We touch Heaven, when we lay our hand on a human body.
“The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.”
Novalis
(1772–1801) German poet and writer
Novalis (1829)