
The winter of '41-'42
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
[Ghatak, Ritwik, Cinema and I, 1987, Ritwik Memorial Trust, 45]
The winter of '41-'42
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God.”
The real author seems to be Pierre Albert-Birot https://books.google.com/books?id=3Ul51CwjUOcC&pg=PA290&dq=%22the+curved+line+that+belongs+let%27s+say+to+God+and+the+straight+line+that+belongs+to+man%22&hl=de&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22the%20curved%20line%20that%20belongs%20let%27s%20say%20to%20God%20and%20the%20straight%20line%20that%20belongs%20to%20man%22&f=false.
Attributed
1841
1840s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s
Source: The Light of Day (1900), Ch. II: From the Artificial to the Natural
“I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.”
Je suis un homme qui n'appartient à personne et qui appartient à tout le monde.
Press conference, May 19 1958
Fifth Republic and other post-WW2
“Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity”
Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysics of Ethics by Immanuel Kant, trans. J.W. Semple, ed. with Iintroduction by Rev. Henry Calderwood (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1886) (3rd edition). Chapter: GENERAL DIVISION OF JURISPRUDENCE. http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1443&chapter=56215&layout=html&Itemid=27
Context: Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person’s freedom.