“The outward limit of human achievement.”

— Harold Bloom

Of William Shakespeare's plays.
As quoted in The Economist, October 26th 2019, page 85.

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The outward limit of human achievement." by Harold Bloom?

Harold Bloom13

American literary critic and scholar 1930–2019

Related quotes

“Mankind, ignorant of the truths that lie withing every human being, looked outward—pushed ever outward. What mankind hoped to learn in its outward push was who was actually in charge of all creation, and what all creation was all about.”

Kurt Vonnegut book The Sirens of Titan

Source: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 1 “Between Timid and Timbuktu” (p. 7)

“Children should not be suffer'd to lose the consideration of human nature in the shufflings of outward conditions.”

John Locke book Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 117
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Context: Children should not be suffer'd to lose the consideration of human nature in the shufflings of outward conditions. The more they have, the better humor'd they should be taught to be, and the more compassionate and gentle to those of their brethren who are placed lower, and have scantier portions. If they are suffer'd from their cradles to treat men ill and rudely, because, by their father's title, they think they have a little power over them, at best it is ill-bred; and if care be not taken, will by degrees nurse up their natural pride into an habitual contempt of those beneath them. And where will that probably end but in oppression and cruelty?