“dear boss i relay this information
without any fear that humanity
will take warning and reform”
Don Marquis (1878–1937) American writer
archy and mehitabel (1927), what the ants are saying
Friend of My Youth (2017)
“dear boss i relay this information
without any fear that humanity
will take warning and reform”
Don Marquis (1878–1937) American writer
archy and mehitabel (1927), what the ants are saying
“this might be the happy ending without the ending”
David Levithan The Realm of Possibility
Source: The Realm of Possibility
Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer
Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
The Third Revelation, Chapter 11
Context: All this shewed He full blissfully, signifying thus: See! I am God: See! I am in all thing: See! I do all thing: See! I lift never mine hands off my works, nor ever shall, without end: See! I lead all thing to the end I ordained it to from without beginning, by the same Might, Wisdom and Love whereby I made it. How should any thing be amiss?
Thus mightily, wisely, and lovingly was the soul examined in this Vision. Then saw I soothly that me behoved, of need, to assent, with great reverence enjoying in God.
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
The Analects, The Doctrine of the Mean
Context: To entire sincerity there belongs ceaselessness. Not ceasing, it continues long. Continuing long, it evidences itself. Evidencing itself, it reaches far. Reaching far, it becomes large and substantial. Large and substantial, it becomes high and brilliant. Large and substantial; this is how it contains all things. High and brilliant; this is how it overspreads all things. Reaching far and continuing long; this is how it perfects all things. So large and substantial, the individual possessing it is the co-equal of Earth. So high and brilliant, it makes him the co-equal of Heaven. So far-reaching and long-continuing, it makes him infinite. Such being its nature, without any display, it becomes manifested; without any movement, it produces changes; and without any effort, it accomplishes its ends.
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher
Source: Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals/On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns
Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist
"Sisterhood" in New York Magazine (20 December 1971), p. 49
“Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end”
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher
“Mr. Bibbit, you might warn this Mr. Harding that I'm so crazy I admit to voting for Eisenhower.”
Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ch. 1
Context: Mr. Bibbit, you might warn this Mr. Harding that I'm so crazy I admit to voting for Eisenhower.
Bibbit! You tell Mr. McMurphy I'm so crazy I voted for Eisenhower twice!
And you tell Mr. Harding right back — he puts both hands on the table and leans down, his voice getting low — that I'm so crazy I plan to vote for Eisenhower again this November.