
Source: Review of Hunger and Love by Lionel Britton, in The Adelphi (April 1931)
A collection of quotes on the topic of drudgery, world, man, life.
Source: Review of Hunger and Love by Lionel Britton, in The Adelphi (April 1931)
Source: Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life
Erst eine Kindheit, grenzenlos und ohne
Verzicht und Ziel. O unbewußte Lust.
Auf einmal Schrecken, Schranke, Schule, Frohne
und Absturtz in Versuchung und Verlust.</p><p>Trotz. Der Gebogene wird selber Bieger
und rächt an anderen, daß er erlag.
Geliebt, gefürchtet, Retter, Ringer, Sieger
und Überwinder, Schlag auf Schlag.<p>Und dann allein im Weiten, Leichten, Kalten.
Doch tief in der errichteten Gestalt
ein Atemholen nach dem Ersten, Alten...</p><p>Da stürzte Gott aus seinem Hinterhalt.</p>
As translated by Cliff Crego
Imaginärer Lebenslauf (Imaginary Life Journey) (September 13, 1923)
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 368.
Letter to Christian Northoff (1497), as translated in Collected Works of Erasmus (1974), p. 114
Source: The Rise and Fall of American Growth, 2016, p. 1 ; Lead paragraph
Pt I, Ch. 4: Old age in present-day society, p. 263
The Coming of Age (1970)
“The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.”
Art and Letters.
Afterthoughts (1931)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 367.
Source: The Temple (1633), The Elixir, Lines 17-20
Source: The Existential Pleasures of Engineering (1976), pp. 6-7
On balancing work and family-life — reported in Barbara Yost, The Arizona Republic (April 15, 1996) "Actress Easily Conquers Role in 'Xena: Warrior Princess'", Chicago Tribune, p. 5.
Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), pp. 145-146.
2010s, Markets, Governments, and the Common Good
Source: Democracy Realizedː The Progressive Alternative (1998), p. 250-1
1920s, The Democracy of Sports (1924)
Source: Science - The Endless Frontier (1945), Ch. 1 "Introduction"
Observations on the Trade with North america, Chart V, page 29.
The Commercial and Political Atlas, 3rd Edition
[Boucher organised education for his own slaves, and baptised many others into the Anglican faith, on one occasion over 300 in a single day]
"A View of the Causes and Consequences of the American Revolution" (London, Robinson, 1797)
I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography (1985)
Though sometimes quoted as if he were author of it, the expression "Only those who see the invisible can do the impossible" is one that greatly predates Lown's use of it; it has also been attributed to Thomas Jefferson, Jesus and Mrs. Charles E. Cowman, but the earliest published expression yet located seems to have been one by American Baptist minister Rev. Robert Stuart MacArthur in Royal Messages of Cheer and Comfort Beautifully Told (1909) edited by Sarah Conger Robinson, p. 58
A Prescription for Hope (1985)
Context: We must hold fast to the dream that reason will prevail. The world today is full of anguish and dread. As great as is the danger, still greater is the opportunity. If science and technology have catapulted us to the brink of extinction, the same ingenuity has brought humankind to the boundary of an age of abundance.
Never before was it possible to feed all the hungry. Never before was it possible to shelter all the homeless. Never before was it possible to teach all the illiterates. Never before were we able to heal so many afflictions. For the first time science and medicine can diminish drudgery and pain.
Only those who see the invisible can do the impossible. But in order to do the impossible, in the words of Jonathan Schell, we ask "not for our personal survival: we ask only that we be survived. We ask for assurance that when we die as individuals, as we know we must, mankind will live on".
The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover (1928), Campaign speech in New York (22 October 1928)
Context: My conception of America is a land where men and women may walk in ordered freedom in the independent conduct of their occupations; where they may enjoy the advantages of wealth, not concentrated in the hands of the few but spread through the lives of all; where they build and safeguard their homes, and give to their children the fullest advantages and opportunities of American life; where every man shall be respected in the faith that his conscience and his heart direct him to follow; where a contented and happy people, secure in their liberties, free from poverty and fear, shall have the leisure and impulse to seek a fuller life.
Some may ask where all this may lead beyond mere material progress. It leads to a release of the energies of men and women from the dull drudgery of life to a wider vision and a higher hope. It leads to the opportunity for greater and greater service, not alone from man in our own land, but from our country to the whole world. It leads to an America, healthy in body, healthy in spirit, unfettered, youthful, eager — with a vision searching beyond the farthest horizons, with an open mind, sympathetic and generous.
As quoted by Clara Zetkin in "Lenin on the Women’s Question", My Memorandum Book https://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1920/lenin/zetkin1.htm, 1920.
Attributions
Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Chapter II Planning a Model World