Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) poet, mountaineer, occultist
Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
“To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia — to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.”
Source: 1910s, Prejudices, First Series (1919), Ch. 16
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Frank Wilczek (1951) physicist
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“The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.”
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer
"Women and Fiction"
Granite and Rainbow (1958)
Context: The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life … it is only when we can measure the way of life and the experience of life made possible to the ordinary woman that we can account for the success or failure of the extraordinary woman as a writer.
“Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.”
Sarada Devi (1853–1920) Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna
Women Saints of East and West
“Just an ordinary in a world that loves the extra ordinary.”
Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song
Variant: He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.
Source: The Last Song
“Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.”
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher
“Young man—Young man—Your arm’s too short to box with God.”
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) writer and activist
The Prodigal Son.
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927)
Ammon Hennacy (1893–1970) American Christian radical
The Book of Ammon
Context: Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. Therefore one with love, courage, and wisdom is one in a million who moves the world, as with Jesus, Buddha, and Gandhi.