Enlightenment rationalism displaced religion as the authoritative mode of explaining the universe and altered conceptions of the relations between individuals and natural, supernatural, and social worlds.
*yawn*
Enlightenment rationalism displaced religion as the authoritative mode of explaining the universe and altered conceptions of the relations between individuals and natural, supernatural, and social worlds.
*yawn*
'Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself,
And so shall starve with feeding.'
Volumnia in Coriolanus
Our ever-insufficient knowledge of the future opposes it: and this is called, in the one instance, hope, and in the other, uncertainty of the following day.
"'Who's that singing in the drawing room?'"
Vanity Fair, William Makepiece Thackeray, 1847
One has to laugh before being happy, because otherwise one risks to die before having laughed.
"Je crains [...] que l'âme ne se vide à ces passe-temps vains, et que le fin du fin ne soit la fin des fins." (Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Acte III, Scène VII)
The objects of oriental traffic were splendid and trifling; silk, a pound of which was esteemed not inferior in value to a pound of gold; precious stones, among which the pearl claimed the first rank after the diamond; and a variety of aromatics, that were consumed in religious worship and the pomp of funerals.
Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
"The expedition, headed by Lt. Colonel John M. Washington, commander of the Ninth Military Department, Santa Fe, had its primary mission "to make a movement against the Navajo Indians," who had lately been troublesome to new settlements along the Rio Grande."
From People of Chaco-A Canyon and Its Culture by Kendrick Frazier
(not reading it - son left it on desk)
Very Nice Discussion. this is knowledgeable Discussion.
"I guess Marullo's got them shaved as close as they'll shave."
From Steinbeck's The Winter of Our Discontent
(not reading - pulled the book for another thread response)
He understood that she was in need of a dwelling; and though the house he now offered her was merely a cottage, he assured her that every thing should be done to it what she might think necessary, if the situation pleased her.
From Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.
‘And I, poor fellow’, said the cattle drover; ‘I’m so old and can’t get there yet.’
The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen.
I can now hear words that we never spoke.
"Don’t you love watching the different ways people have of entering a restaurant?"
Taken from The Complete Saki.
But he would not be a world-historical figure; his influence would be nothing like what it has been -it would be as if Shakespeare had died at thirty-seven, in 1601.
Taken from Basic writings of Nietzsche (Introduction by Peter Gay).
Nelle cosce fumanti della terra mi scopro a ridere
Only in the South and in New England would the portfolio genre be preserved in its full purity, because only in these tight enclaves would the fashions popular in Victoria's reign escape the rapid metamorphoses of Victorian culture.
'Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself,
And so shall starve with feeding.'
Volumnia in Coriolanus
"This evaluation, though quite correct in the description of a surface phenomenon, overlooks the most serious paradox embodied in the curious political history of the Jews".
H. Arendt, "The origins of Totalitarism"
-And twopence, he said, for a pint.
"Ulysses" by James Joyce
Whatever today may be, tomorrow will be peace.
-Les Miserables
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