Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
Context: p>Straight to the utmost crown of night he flew.
The nothingness was a nakedness, a pointBeyond which thought could not progress as thought.
He had to choose. But it was not a choice
Between excluding things. It was not a choiceBetween, but of. He chose to include the things
That in each other are included, the whole,
The complicate, the amassing harmony.</p
“The nothingness was a nakedness, a point,”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
Context: The nothingness was a nakedness, a point,Beyond which fact could not progress as fact.
Thereon the learning of the man conceived
Once more night’s pale illuminations, goldBeneath, far underneath, the surface of
His eye and audible in the mountain of
His ear, the very material of his mind.</p
“Nothingness is capacity, and night the opportunity of light.”
Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 68.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)
“A crown and justice? Night and day
Shall first be yoked together.”
Marino Faliero (1885).
“A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.”
Source: A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings
Jean-Christophe (1904 - 1912), Journey's End: The Burning Bush (1911)
Context: "Thou art come back to me, Thou art come back to me! O Thou, whom I had lost!... Why didst Thou abandon me?"
"To fulfil My task, that thou didst abandon."
"What task?"
"My fight."
"What need hast Thou to fight? Art Thou not master of all?"
"I am not the master."
"Art Thou not All that Is?"
"I am not all that is. I am Life fighting Nothingness. I am not Nothingness, I am the Fire which burns in the Night. I am not the Night. I am the eternal Light; I am not an eternal destiny soaring above the fight. I am free Will which struggles eternally. Struggle and burn with Me."
“I'm a high night flier and a rainbow rider
And a straight-shooting son of a gun.”
Joy to the World
Joy To The World (1971)
“In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.”
Source: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
“The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.”
Nun gilt für die kürzeste Verbindung zwischen zwei Personen die Gerade, so als ob sie Punkte wären.
E. Jephcott, trans. (1974), § 20
Minima Moralia (1951)
