
“Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.”
25 January 1857 (p. 345)
1831 - 1863, Delacroix' 'Journal' (1847 – 1863)
As quoted in An Apple for the Teacher: Fundamentals for Instructional Computing (1983) by George H. Culp and Herbert N. Nickles, p. 190; also in Youth Quake: A Manifesto (2002) by Cousin Sam, p. 31
“Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.”
25 January 1857 (p. 345)
1831 - 1863, Delacroix' 'Journal' (1847 – 1863)
“At is taking risks.... a sincere attempt to achieve the impossible, the unknown.”
short quotes, 14 September 1967; p. 68
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
“Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.”
Realm of Light Book II (1931); "Banner of Peace" Address (1931), p. 108
Context: I am not astonished that we receive so many enthusiastic responses to our Peace Banner. The past is filled with deplorable, sad and irreparable destructions. We see that not only in times of war but also during other errors, creations of human genius are destroyed. At the same time the elite of humanity understand that no evolution is possible without the cumulations of Culture. We understand how indescribably difficult are the ways of Culture. Hence the more carefully must we guard the paths which lead to it. It is our duty to create for the young generation traditions of Culture; where there is Culture, there is Peace; there is achievement; there is the right solution for the difficult social problems. Culture is the accumulation of highest Bliss, highest Beauty, highest Knowledge.
“Generally, it was impossible to understand the motives of aliens.”
Source: Light (2002), Chapter 2 “Gold Diggers of 2400 AD” (p. 16)
Letter to Thomas Jefferson, 28 June 1813. Often misquoted as "The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity"
1810s
Context: The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence, were … the general principles of Christianity, in which all those sects were united, and the general principles of English and American liberty, in which all those young men united, and which had united all parties in America, in majorities sufficient to assert and maintain her independence. Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God; and that those principles of liberty are as unalterable as human nature and our terrestrial, mundane system.