„When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.“
As quoted in Hard-to-Solve Cryptograms (2001) by Derrick Niederman, p. 96
Lin Yutang1
chinesischer Schriftsteller 1895 - 1976Ähnliche Zitate
— John Dewey American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer 1859 - 1952
Quoted in John Dewey and American Democracy by Robert Westbrook (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991), p. 440; cited in Understanding Power http://www.understandingpower.com/Chapter9.htm#f16| (2002) by Noam Chomsky, ch. 9, footnote 16; originally from "The Need for a New Party" (1931) by John Dewey, Later Works 6, http://books.google.com/books?id=0xPFJ2uwpbIC&lpg=PA163&ots=dd3ciwpXoJ&dq=%22shadow%20cast%22%20dewey&pg=PA163#v=onepage&q&f=false| p. 163. (Via Westbrook.)
Misc. Quotes
„When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.“
— Chinua Achebe, buch No Longer at Ease
Quelle: No Longer at Ease (1960), Chapter 10 (p. 95)
— Rumi Iranian poet 1207 - 1273
As translated in Masnavi I Ma'navi : The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-'d-Dín Muhammad Rúmí (1898) edited by Edward Henry Whinfield Book IV, Story IV : "Bayazid and his impious sayings when beside himself" <!-- also quoted in The Perennial Philosophy (1945) by Aldous Huxley -->
„Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.“
— Jean De La Fontaine French poet, fabulist and writer. 1621 - 1695
— Steve Stewart-Williams 1971
Quelle: Men, Women and STEM: Why the Differences and What Should be Done? (with Lewis G. Halsey; 2021), p. 22
— Jonathan Safran Foer, buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah
Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
„Men nowadays Worship the Rising Sun, and not the Setting.“
— Jonathan Swift Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet 1667 - 1745
A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind (1707)
Kontext: ALL Rivers go to the Sea, but none return from it. Xerxes wept when he beheld his Army, to consider that in less than a Hundred Years they would be all Dead. Anacreon was' Choakt with a Grape-stone, and violent Joy Kills as well as violent Grief. There is nothing in this World constant but Inconstancy; yet Plato thought that if Virtue would appear to the World in her own native Dress, all Men would be Enamoured with her. But now since Interest governs the World, and Men neglect the Golden Mean, Jupiter himself, if he came on the Earth would be Despised, unless it were as he did to Danae in a Golden Shower. For Men nowadays Worship the Rising Sun, and not the Setting.
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, buch Demon in My View
Quelle: Demon in My View
— Jack Welch American executive: General Electric CEO 1935
Quelle: Jack: Straight from the Gut (2001), Ch. 3.
„It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun“
— Charles Bukowski, buch Factotum
Quelle: Factotum
— Bertolt Brecht German poet, playwright, theatre director 1898 - 1956
"Alphabet" [Alfabet] from "Five Children's Songs" (1934), trans. John Willett in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 239
Poems, 1913-1956 (1976)
— Susan Sontag American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist 1933 - 2004
Quelle: Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966), p. 7
— Yann Martel Canadian author best known for the book Life of Pi 1963
Quelle: Beatrice & Virgil (2010), p. 103
Kontext: To my mind, faith is like being in the sun. When you are in the sun, can you avoid creating a shadow? Can you shake that area of darkness that clings to you, always shaped like you, as if constantly to remind you of yourself? You can't. This shadow is doubt. And it goes wherever you go as long as you stay in the sun. And who wouldn't want to be in the sun?
— George Chapman English dramatist, poet, and translator 1559 - 1634
Revenge for Honour (1654), Act II, scene i. Attributed, probably falsely, to Chapman. The play may have been written by Henry Glapthorne.
Disputed
„Poetry is the shadow cast by our imaginations.“
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti American artist, writer and activist 1919
These Are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993 (New Directions) ISBN: 0-0112-1273-4 0-0112-1252-1
