Source: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 20 (p. 332).
“There is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.”
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George Eliot
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Middlemarch
Middlemarch (1871)
Context: There is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it. A new Theresa will hardly have the opportunity of reforming a conventual life, any more than a new Antigone will spend her heroic piety in daring all for the sake of a brother's burial: the medium in which their ardent deeds took shape is forever gone. But we insignificant people with our daily words and acts are preparing the lives of many Dorotheas, some of which may present a far sadder sacrifice than that of the Dorothea whose story we know.
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English novelist, journalist and translator 1819–1880Related quotes
The Unnamable (1954)
Context: What they were most determined for me to swallow was my fellow creatures. In this they were without mercy. I remember little or nothing of these lectures. I cannot have understood a great deal. But I seem to have retained certain descriptions, in spite of myself. They gave me courses on love, on intelligence, most precious, most precious. They also taught me to count, and even to reason. Some of this rubbish has come in handy on occasions, I don’t deny it, on occasions which would never have arisen if they had left me in peace. I use it still, to scratch my arse with.
John Dee
(1527–1608) English mathematican, astrologer and antiquary
The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara (1570)
“What's determined
Bear, as I can, I must, knowing the might
Of strong Necessity is unconquerable.”
Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 103–105 (tr. G. M. Cookson)
“The best hope for the future is to ask what is being determined as well as who determines it.”
Joseph Nye
(1937) American political scientist
Source: Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History (6th ed., 2006), Chapter 6, Intervention, Institutions, and Regional and Ethnic Conflicts, p. 169.
Vladimir Lenin
(1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1908)