— Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments
Jace to Clary, pg. 257
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
„And at times I'm tempted to think that our way and the Kirk's way is not God's way, for we're apt to treat the natural man as altogether corrupt, and put him under over-strict pains and penalties, whereas there's matter in him that might be shaped to the purposes of grace. If there's original sin, there's likewise original innocemce.“
— John Buchan, 1. Baron Tweedsmuir, buch Witch Wood
Quelle: Witch Wood (1927), Ch. IX "Before Lammas"
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— Charles Darwin British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection" 1809 - 1882
Letter to J.D. Hooker, 29 March 1863
In The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 11, 1863; Frederick Burkhardt, Duncan Porter, Sheila Ann Dean, Jonathan R. Topham, Sarah Wilmot, editors; Cambridge University Press, September 1999, page 278
Sometimes paraphrased as “One might as well speculate about the origin of matter.”
Other letters, notebooks, journal articles, recollected statements
— Herman Melville American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet 1818 - 1891
Hawthorne and His Mosses (1850)
„Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.“
— Peter Ustinov English actor, writer, and dramatist 1921 - 2004
As quoted in Backstabbing for Beginners : My Crash Course in International Diplomacy (2008) by Michael Soussan, p. 316
— Cassandra Clare, buch City of Bones
Variante: I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might not, but I don't think it matters. Either way we're on our own.
Quelle: City of Bones
— Ali Hujwiri Sufi mystic 1009 - 1072
Persian Sufi Poetry, p. 73,
A Literary History of Persia, Vol. III, p. 141-146
Jan Rypka's History of Iranian Literature, p. 254
about Sufism
— Friedrich Nietzsche, buch The Dawn
Man verdirbt einen Jüngling am sichersten, wenn man ihn anleitet, den Gleichdenkenden höher zu achten, als den Andersdenkenden.
The Dawn, Sec. 297
„Pain is always new to the sufferer, but loses its originality for those around him.“
— Alphonse Daudet, buch In the Land of Pain
Douleur toujours nouvelle pour celui qui souffre et qui se banalise pour l'entourage.
La doulou: (la douleur), 1887-1895 (Paris: Librairie de France, 1930) p. 16; Julian Barnes (ed. and trans.) In the Land of Pain (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002) p. 19.
— François Fénelon Catholic bishop 1651 - 1715
Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 280.
— Robert Silverberg American speculative fiction writer and editor 1935
Quelle: Short fiction, Thomas the Proclaimer (1972), Chapter 3, “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters” (p. 77)
— Henry L. Stimson United States Secretary of War 1867 - 1950
The Bomb and the Opportunity (March 1946)
— Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki Indian Sufi 1173 - 1235
Quelle: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 263
