Source: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), V
Context: All became so jealous of the rights of their own personality that they did their very utmost to curtail and destroy them in others, and made that the chief thing in their lives. Slavery followed, even voluntary slavery; the weak eagerly submitted to the strong, on condition that the latter aided them to subdue the still weaker. Then there were saints who came to these people, weeping, and talked to them of their pride, of their loss of harmony and due proportion, of their loss of shame. They were laughed at or pelted with stones.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Bhakti
“One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.”
“Spiders so large they appear to be wearing the pelts of small mammals.”
“Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered”
Source: Dragon Prince
“Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.”
“Directly the mulberry tree begins to make you circle, break off. Pelt the tree with laughter.”
Source: Three Guineas (1938), Ch. 2, p. 80
Broca's Brain (1979), p. 64 http://books.google.com/books?id=90DuAAAAMAAJ
Source: Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Context: The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
