“The greater the damage to the roof, the clearer the sight of the stars.”
Karlheinz Deschner (1924–2014) German writer and activist
Je größer der Dachschaden, desto schöner der Ausblick zum Himmel.
Tele-Akadamie, SWF, 20 January 2002
In " Só (Solidão) http://www.tomze.com.br/pestudandoosamba.htm#3b", of the album " Estudando o Samba http://www.tomze.com.br/pestudandoosamba.htm" <br class="br">Music
“The greater the damage to the roof, the clearer the sight of the stars.”
Karlheinz Deschner (1924–2014) German writer and activist
Je größer der Dachschaden, desto schöner der Ausblick zum Himmel.
Tele-Akadamie, SWF, 20 January 2002
Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865) French politician, mutualist philosopher, economist, and socialist
Source: What is Property? (1840), Ch. IV
“Who now reads novels as a guide to life and love? Everyone wants to star in his or her own movie.”
Frederic Raphael (1931) British writer
Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2001 ed.): Art. "Frederic Raphael", p. 363
“Seven cities warred for Homer being dead,
Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head.”
Thomas Heywood (1574–1641) English playwright, actor, and author
Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells (1635). Compare: "Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did 'go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 6.
Mikhail Bakunin book God and the State
God and the State (1871; publ. 1882)
Context: I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. The greatest intelligence would not be equal to a comprehension of the whole. Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give — such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn. Therefore there is no fixed and constant authority, but a continual exchange of mutual, temporary, and, above all, voluntary authority and subordination.
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Love has always passed me by
Alun Lewis (1915–1944) Welsh poet
"The Mahratta Ghats", line 22; p. 44.
Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets (1945)