Book II, Chapter IX.
Crowds (1913)
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume I, p. 83.
As A Man Thinketh (1902), Serenity
Variant: A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
Source: I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked (1935), ; repr. University of California Press, 1994, p. 109.
Context: I used to say to our audiences: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Attention and Will (1947), p. 216
“Everybody wants a flame, they don’t want to get burnt.
And today is our turn.”
"Bonfire Heart", written by James Blunt and Ryan Tedder
Song lyrics, Moon Landing (2013)
Source: My Life and Work (1922), Chapter XII, Money - Master or Servant
On death, in an interview for the documentary Mandela (1994). Source: From Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations © 2010 by Nelson R. Mandela and The Nelson Mandela Foundation http://www.nelsonmandela.org/content/mini-site/selected-quotes
1990s
Source: https://frederickdouglass.infoset.io/islandora/object/islandora%3A2333 "Negroes and the National War Effort"]
speech in Philadelphia (6 July 1863): Should the Negro Enlist in the Union Army? (1863)
Source: For The Sake of Heaven (1945), p. 44
