“This is a wintry world. Low temperatures prevail in the hearts of men. Altruism is scarce. Gaunt but blessed hands stretch up to us everywhere for bread. They are the holy hands of Truth.”
Source: Ethics and Education (1912), The World to Be, p. 150
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1862–1916Related quotes
"Love"
The Forerunner (1920)
Context: O love, whose lordly hand
Has bridled my desires,
And raised my hunger and my thirst
To dignity and pride,
Let not the strong in me and the constant
Eat the bread or drink the wine
That tempt my weaker self.
Let me rather starve,
And let my heart parch with thirst,
And let me die and perish,
Ere I stretch my hand
To a cup you did not fill,
Or a bowl you did not bless.
12:13 http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/kjv/kjv-idx?type=DIV1&byte=4380943 (KJV) Said to a man with a withered hand.
New Testament, Gospel of Matthew, Chapters 8–12
"The voice of the turtle", p. 250
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1
“Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.”
Often cited as from a speech "on the eve of Indian Independence in 1947", e.g. "Anything multiplied by zero is zero indeed!" http://ia.rediff.com/money/2007/apr/11guest.htm in Rediff India Abroad (11 April 2007), or even from a speech in the house of Commons, but it does not appear to have any credible source. May have first appeared in the Annual Report of P. N. Oak's discredited "Institute for Rewriting Indian History" in 1979, and is now quoted in at least three books, as well as countless media and websites.
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