Kim Peek (1951–2009) American savant, model for the protagonist of the film "Rain Man"
Wisconsin Medical Society http://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/savant/kimpeek.cfm
“The field is fought—who walketh there?—
The shadow victory casts—Despair!”
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "The field is fought—who walketh there?—
The shadow victory casts—Despair!" by Letitia Elizabeth Landon?
Letitia Elizabeth Landon785
English poet and novelist 1802–1838Related quotes
“A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all.”
Joanne Harris book The Lollipop Shoes
Source: The Lollipop Shoes
James A. Garfield (1831–1881) American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881)
[Great applause.] But victory was worth nothing except for the truths that were under it, in it, and above it. We meet tonight as comrades to stand guard around the sacred truths for which we fought. [Loud and prolonged cheers.] And while we have life to meet and grasp the hand of a comrade, we will stand by the great truths of the war. ["Good," "good," and loud cheers.] Many convictions have sunk so deep into our hearts that we can never forget them. Think of the elevating spirit of the war itself. We gathered the boys from all our farms and shops and stores and schools and homes, from all over the Republic. They went forth unknown to fame, but returned enrolled on the roster of immortal heroes. [Great applause.] They went in the spirit of the soldiers of Henry at Agincourt, of whom he said. 'For he today that sheds his blood with me. Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile. This day shall gentle his condition.'
1880s, Speech to the 'Boys in Blue' (1880)
Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer
Source: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 16, "The Epitome" (p. 114)
“Poetry is the shadow cast by our imaginations.”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919) American artist, writer and activist
These Are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993 (New Directions) ISBN: 0-0112-1273-4 0-0112-1252-1
John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
Quoted in John Dewey and American Democracy by Robert Westbrook (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991), p. 440; cited in Understanding Power http://www.understandingpower.com/Chapter9.htm#f16| (2002) by Noam Chomsky, ch. 9, footnote 16; originally from "The Need for a New Party" (1931) by John Dewey, Later Works 6, http://books.google.com/books?id=0xPFJ2uwpbIC&lpg=PA163&ots=dd3ciwpXoJ&dq=%22shadow%20cast%22%20dewey&pg=PA163#v=onepage&q&f=false| p. 163. (Via Westbrook.) <br class="br">Misc. Quotes
“If our so-called facts are changing shadows, they are shadows cast by the light of constant truth.”
Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944) British astrophysicist
Science and the Unseen World (1929)
Context: If our so-called facts are changing shadows, they are shadows cast by the light of constant truth. So too in religion we are repelled by that confident theological doctrine... but we need not turn aside from the measure of light that comes into our experience showing us a Way through the unseen world.<!--IX, p.91