
Source: Julian and Maddalo http://www.bartleby.com/139/shel115.html (1819), l. 482
Variant: Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts
Source: "Einstein's Reply to Criticisms" (1949), The World As I See It (1949), p. 66 of the edition at http://books.google.com/books?id=aNKOo94tO6cC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA66#v=onepage&q&f=false
Source: Julian and Maddalo http://www.bartleby.com/139/shel115.html (1819), l. 482
Part I, Essay 4: Of The First Principles of Government
Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (1741-2; 1748)
Context: Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. When we enquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find, that, as Force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is therefore, on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most popular.
Book VIII, Chapter V
Institutes of the Coenobia (c. 420 AD)
“The harvest of a quiet eye,
That broods and sleeps on his own heart.”
Stanza 13.
A Poet's Epitaph (1799)
Original: Chi riesce a star bene da solo ha un grande privilegio: non si accontenta di chiunque.
Source: Prevale.net
“I am one of those marranes who no longer say they are Jews even in the secret of their own hearts.”
"Circumfession." In Jacques Derrida, eds. G. Bennington & J. Derrida, trans. G. Bennington. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993, p. 170