“You are not free. Myriad invisible hands hold your hands and direct them.”
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: You are not free. Myriad invisible hands hold your hands and direct them. When you rise in anger, a great-grandfather froths at your mouth; when you make love, an ancestral caveman growls with lust; when you sleep, tombs open in your memory till your skull brims with ghosts.
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Greek writer 1883–1957Related quotes
Mirkka Rekola, Kuka lukee kanssasi (Who is Reading with You), 1990; Translated by Sari Hantula. Quoted at Mirkka Rekola http://www.electricverses.net/sakeet.php?poet=22&poem=645&language=3, at electricverses.net, accessed 20-03-2017.
“When you are on the right path, invisible hands will come to your aid.”
“You see what power is – holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.”
Source: The Kitchen God's Wife (1991), p. 387
“The flower you hold in your hands was born today and is already your age.”
La flor que tienes en tus manos ha nacido hoy y ya tiene tu edad.
Voces (1943)
“Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.”
“The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.”
Quoted in Daniel Altman, "Managing Globalization: Q & A with Joseph Stiglitz" http://blogs.iht.com/tribtalk/business/globalization/?p=177, The International Herald Tribune (2006-10-11).
“It's like a bar of soap in the bathtub — you have it in your hand until you hold on too tight.”