Source: How to Twist a Dragon's Tale
Isaac Deutscher, quoted in S. Unger, "Deutscher and the New Left in America", in D. Horowitz (ed).
“You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.”
Source: 2010s, Free Will (2012), p. 14
“Wars may make heroes of men, but not all the time.”
Source: Briar Rose (1992), Chapter 25 (p. 146)
“If the hero join combat with night and conquer it, may shreds of it remain upon him!”
The Thief's Journal (1949)
“A Hero is a Hero at all points; in the soul and thought of him first of all.”
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Divinity
Context: Transport yourselves into the early childhood of nations; the first beautiful morning-light of our Europe, when all yet lay in fresh young radiance as of a great sunrise, and our Europe was first beginning to think, to be! Wonder, hope; infinite radiance of hope and wonder, as of a young child's thoughts, in the hearts of these strong men! Strong sons of Nature; and here was not only a wild Captain and Fighter; discerning with his wild flashing eyes what to do, with his wild lion-heart daring and doing it; but a Poet too, all that we mean by a Poet, Prophet, great devout Thinker and Inventor,—as the truly Great Man ever is. A Hero is a Hero at all points; in the soul and thought of him first of all. This Odin, in his rude semi-articulate way, had a word to speak. A great heart laid open to take in this great Universe, and man's Life here, and utter a great word about it. A Hero, as I say, in his own rude manner; a wise, gifted, noble-hearted man. And now, if we still admire such a man beyond all others, what must these wild Norse souls, first awakened into thinking, have made of him!
“Hence, we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but that heroes fight like Greeks.”
Allegedly said regarding a Greek victory over Italian invaders, but without a documented source.
Disputed
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Man of Letters
