Monday, June 18, 1979

Adventure, Joseph Campbell

We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us — the labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

- Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), Chapter 1.

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Sunday, June 17, 1979

Absolutism, Nikolai Berdyaev

There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and to every form of state absolutism. ... The religious truth of anarchism consists in this, that power over man is bound up with sin and evil, that a state of perfection is a state where there is no power of man over man, that is to say, anarchy. The Kingdom of God is freedom and the absence of such power... the Kingdom of God is anarchy.

- Nikolai Berdyaev, in Slavery and Freedom (1939), p. 147

Tuesday, May 8, 1979

Faith, Douglas Adams


Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979), Chapter 16

Saturday, May 5, 1979

Money, Douglas Adams

This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

- Douglas Adams, in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979), Introduction


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Tuesday, April 3, 1979

Tuesday, March 27, 1979

Appearance, Albert Schweitzer

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.

- Albert Schweitzer

Saturday, March 10, 1979

Money, Eric Hoffer

Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life.

- Eric Hoffer, Before the Sabbath (1979), p. 139

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Thursday, March 8, 1979

Life, Sri Chinmoy

Since life is but a continuous series of experiences, everything ultimately helps me towards my final enlightenment.

- Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower Flames Part 1-100 (1979), #4029, Part 41

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Monday, January 8, 1979

Italy, Orson Welles


In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

- Orson Welles as the character Harry Lime in the film The Third Man (1949)

Travel, Western Proverb


He that travels far knows much.

- Western Proverb

멀리 여행하는 자는 많이 안다.

- 서양속담

Monday, January 1, 1979

Art, Aldo Leopold


Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.

― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River