Preface of M. Quetelet
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
Context: But is the anatomy of man not a more painful science still?—that science which leads us to dip our hands into the blood of our fellow-beings to pry with impassible curiosity into parts and organs which once palpitated with life? And yet who dreams this day of raising his voice against the study? Who does not applaud, on the contrary, the numerous advantages which it has conferred on humanity? The time is come for studying the moral anatomy of also, and for uncovering its most afflicting aspects, with the view of providing remedies.
Source: Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1961 - 1970, Diary of a Genius (1964), p. 81
Source: About Looking (1980), Chapter "Why Look at Animals?"
“A man ought not to marry without having studied anatomy, and dissected at least one woman.”
Un homme ne peut se marier sans avoir étudié l'anatomie et disséqué une femme au moins.
Part I, Meditation V: Of the Predestined, aphorism XXVIII.
Physiology of Marriage (1829)
“He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.”
Evolution and Religion in Education : Polemics of the Fundamentalist (1926), p. 138
The Fifteenth Revelation, Chapter 63
Context: It is more blissful that man be taken from pain, than that pain be taken from man; for if pain be taken from us it may come again: therefore it is a sovereign comfort and blissful beholding in a loving soul that we shall be taken from pain. For in this behest I saw a marvellous compassion that our Lord hath in us for our woe, and a courteous promising of clear deliverance. For He willeth that we be comforted in the overpassing; and that He shewed in these words: And thou shalt come up above, and thou shalt have me to thy meed, and thou shalt be fulfilled of joy and bliss.
Die Anatomie ist das Schicksal
"The Dissolution of the Oedipus Complex" (1924) ( original text in German http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/kleine-schriften-ii-7122/30)
1920s
Variant: Anatomy is destiny
Sylvester Graham's Lectures on the Science of Human Life https://books.google.it/books?id=nRwDAAAAQAAJ, condensed by T. Baker, Manchester: John Heywood, 1881, p. 76.
