Source: The Subtle Knife
“But his ambition is limitless. He dares to do what men and women don't even dare to think.”
Thorold, in Ch. 2 : The Witches
His Dark Materials, The Subtle Knife (1997)
Context: Lord Asriel is just a man, with human power, no more than that. But his ambition is limitless. He dares to do what men and women don't even dare to think.
“He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!”
Dimidium facti qui coepit habet; sapere aude;
incipe!
Book I, epistle ii, lines 40–41
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)
Source: Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance (1963), p. 31.
“These Are Not Psalms”, p. 124
Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
He that knows not what the world is, knows not where he is himself. He that knows not for what he was made, knows not what he is nor what the world is.
VIII, 52
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
“Don't dare a person who has nothing else left to lose.”
Variant: You shouldn't dare a person who doesn't have anything left to lose.
Source: Kiss an Angel
"An Interview with Gwendolyn Brooks", Contemporary Literature 11:1 (Winter 1970)
“Men, forgive Him, for He knows not what He has done.”
Source: The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991), p. 347; Jesus' last words from the cross.
Context: Jesus then realized he had been brought here under false pretences, as the lamb is led to sacrifice and that his life had been planned for death since the very beginning. Remembering the river of blood and suffering that would flow from his side and flood the entire earth, he called out to the open sky where God could be seen smiling, Men, forgive Him, for He knows not what He has done.
