
Inauguration of Library of Birmingham, Jan 2013
Source: Raven's Shadow
Inauguration of Library of Birmingham, Jan 2013
Source: The Dark World (1954), Ch. 9 : Realm of the Superconscious
“Hurt is a weapon. Better weapon than most because it doesn't look like one.”
Source: Stay
Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Ground Book
“A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.”
quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit: occidentis telum est.
Seneca is here describing arguments used by 'certain men,' not stating his own opinion.
Alternate translation: A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. (translator unknown).
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXXVII: Some arguments in favor of the simple life, Line 30
Precis des Guerres Cesar Das Napoleon I
“Knowledge does not keep any better than fish.”
1920s, The Aims of Education (1929)
Context: For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow it must come to the students, as it were, just drawn out of the sea and with the freshness of its immediate importance.
Source: The Bhagavadgītā (1973), p. 169–70. (12.)