Der Gescheitere gibt nach! Ein unsterbliches Wort. Es begründet die Weltherrschaft der Dummheit.
Aphorisms (1893), p. 6
Der Gescheitere giebt nach! Ein unsterbliches Wort. Es begründet die Weltherrschaft der Dummheit.
Aphorismen. Aus: Schriften. Bd. 1, Berlin: Paetel. 1893. S. 6
Aphorismen
Variant: Der Gescheitere gibt nach! Ein unsterbliches Wort. Es begründet die Weltherrschaft der Dummheit.
“Here the heart
May give a useful lesson to the head,
And Learning wiser grow without his books.”
Source: The Task (1785), Book VI, Winter Walk at Noon, Line 85.
Source: The Cornel West Reader
1960s, The American Promise (1965)
Context: This was the first nation in the history of the world to be founded with a purpose. The great phrases of that purpose still sound in every American heart, North and South: "All men are created equal" — "government by consent of the governed" — "give me liberty or give me death." Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories. In their name Americans have fought and died for two centuries, and tonight around the world they stand there as guardians of our liberty, risking their lives. Those words are a promise to every citizen that he shall share in the dignity of man. This dignity cannot be found in a man's possessions; it cannot be found in his power, or in his position. It really rests on his right to be treated as a man equal in opportunity to all others. It says that he shall share in freedom, he shall choose his leaders, educate his children, and provide for his family according to his ability and his merits as a human being.
“A man's immortality can be found in his children.”
Source: Raven's Shadow
“Over my dead body, I thought. Yes, even immortals use that phrase. It has extra oomph for us.”
Source: Immortal Beloved
“So we remain, forever more,
Immortal and Found.”
from the poem, This Child Desires Spring http://www.masielalushafoundation.org/board.php
“They want to shake up the world, not make it wiser.”
