Source: Paradise Lost
“Weak and miserable as I am, I can still stand up to the terrible tragedy of life and prevail!”
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
Strengthen the Individual: A counterpoint to Post Modern Political Correctness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwcVLETRBjg&t=72m40s <br class="br">Other
“We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions.”
Daniel J. Boorstin (1914–2004) American historian
Preface
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961)
Context: We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
www.youtube.com/watch?v=THHapkLeSGo?t=24m23s
Christopher Hitchens vs John Lennox - Is God Great? [2009]
2000s, 2009
Ba Jin (1904–2005) Chinese novelist
As quoted in "Literary witness to century of turmoil" in China Daily (24 November 2003)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
(1834-1, page 303) The Future. Re-used in Ethel Churchill (or The Two Brides) Vol. I, Chapter 31
The Monthly Magazine
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
Section 42
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)
Context: It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.
“Several people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses.”
Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002) Dutch computer scientist
Dijkstra (1978) The pragmatic engineer versus the scientific designer http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD690.html (EWD 690). <br class="br">1970s
