„There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.“

Zdroj: Clockwork Prince

6A:11, as translated by Wing-tsit Chan in A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy (1963), p. 58
The Mencius

Frederick Douglass (lines 7-11), from Collected Poems (1985)

1900s, A Free Man's Worship (1903)

Man In Uniform
Song lyrics

Zdroj: Macbeth

Pages 12-13
Other writings, The Nature of the Judicial Process (1921)
Kontext: There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals. All their lives, forces which they do not recognize and cannot name, have been tugging at them — inherited instincts, traditional beliefs, acquired convictions; and the resultant is an outlook on life, a conception of social needs. … In this mental background every problem finds it setting. We may try to see things as objectively as we please. None the less, we can never see them with any eyes except our own.

Savitri (1918-1950), Book Two : The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Kontext: p>As in a studio of creative Death
The giant sons of Darkness sit and plan
The drama of the earth, their tragic stage.
All who would raise the fallen world must come
Under the dangerous arches of their power;
For even the radiant children of the gods
To darken their privilege is and dreadful right.
None can reach heaven who has not passed through hell.This too the traveller of the worlds must dare.</p

(Che) nessuna scienza
Senz’ ammaestratura
Non saglie in grande altura
Per proprio sentimento.
Canzone. (Poeti del Primo Secolo, Firenze, 1816, Vol. I, p. 83).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 369.

Satire IV, line 23 (translated by John Dryden).
The Satires

Indian Antiquary (1902) - By Paul Deussen and reprinted in Outline of Indian Philosophy - 1907.

Zdroj: Infinite Jest

Cassandra (1860)
Kontext: The progressive world is necessarily divided into two classes — those who take the best of what there is and enjoy it — those who wish for something better and try to create it. Without these two classes the world would be badly off. They are the very conditions of progress, both the one and the other. Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Thomas Lansing Masson (1927) Tom Masson's Book of Wit & Humor. p. 1.

In p. 5.
Ramayana

No. 225.
The Tatler (1711–1714)
Kontext: There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion; it is this, indeed, which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them. Without it, learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.

The Usurpation Of Language (1910)
Kontext: Of all the media of expression employed by man (and let us never forget that they are many) none are so unstable, none so quick to change their meaning, as words. Even sculpture, architecture, painting, in their noblest works, speak differently under different conditions; but these arts are relatively immortal compared with speech.