„Most of the pathetic scenes in almost everybody's life are scenes unnoted by anyone and totally disregarded by the person in question.“

The Life of Sir Thomas Browne (1756) http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/browne.html

Quelle: The Conflict of the Individual and the Mass in the Modern World (1932), p. 29

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Quelle: The Life of Poetry (1949), Chapter One : The Fear of Poetry
Kontext: Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling, and what is the use of truth!
How do we use feeling?
How do we use truth! However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.
If we use the resources we now have, we and the world itself may move in one fullness. Moment to moment, we can grow, if we can bring ourselves to meet the moment with our lives.

Quelle: "Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer on friendship, the Oscars and that peach scene" in GQ Magazine https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/armie-hammer-timothee-chalamet-interview (17 September 2017)

Jon Hopwood
About, Spartacus Schoolnet biography

Cuba as Vanguard (1961)

Quelle: Complete Poems and Selected Letters

Quelle: The Magus

As quoted in Option (1992-01-02).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print

L'Ami du peuple, no.672 (1792-07-14)

Sec. 94
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Kontext: The scene should be gently open'd, and his entrance made step by step, and the dangers pointed out that attend him from several degrees, tempers, designs, and clubs of men. He should be prepared to be shocked by some, and caress'd by others; warned who are like to oppose, who to mislead, who to undermine him, and who to serve him. He should be instructed how to know and distinguish them; where he should let them see, and when dissemble the knowledge of them and their aims and workings.

Quelle: Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business

Quelle: Letters and Papers from Prison (1967; 1997), Who Stands Fast?, p. 4.
Kontext: The great masquerade of evil has played havoc with all our ethical concepts. For evil to appear disguised as light, charity, historical necessity or social justice is quite bewildering to anyone brought up on our traditional ethical concepts, while for the Christian who bases his life on the Bible, it merely confirms the fundamental wickedness of evil. The "reasonable" people's failure is obvious. With the best intentions and a naive lack of realism, they think that with a little reason they can bend back into position the framework that has got out of joint. In their lack of vision they want to do justice to all sides, and so the conflicting forces wear them down with nothing achieved. Disappointed by the world's unreasonableness, they see themselves condemned to ineffectiveness; they step aside in resignation or collapse before the stronger party.
Still more pathetic is the total collapse of moral fanaticism. Fanatics think that their single-minded principles qualify them to do battle with the powers of evil; but like a bull they rush at the red cloak instead of the person who is holding it; they exhaust themselves and are beaten. They get entangled in non-essentials and fall into the trap set by cleverer people.

Chi mal si marita non esce mai di fatica.
Translation: He who makes a bad marriage never escapes from his troubles.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 266.
I Lucidi (published 1549)

"Autumn Landscape", line 2
Spring Essence (2000)
Original: (vi) Khen ai khéo vẽ cảnh tiêu sơ.

Il mondo va invecchiando e peggiorando di mano in mano.
Translation: The world grows older and grows worse from generation to generation.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 317.
L’Alessandro (1544)

Remark on the state of affairs (June 1757), quoted in Basil Williams, The Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. Volume I (London: Longmans, 1913), p. 337
1750s