„He who would know the secret of both worlds,
Will find the secret of them both, is Love.“
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„In solitude it is possible to love mankind; in the world, for one who knows the world, there can be nothing but secret or open war.“
— George Santayana 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism 1863 - 1952
p. 159
„He who 'makes' real things is he who knows the secret of making them.“
— Mircea Eliade Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer and philosopher 1907 - 1986
Context: In virtue of this, the artisan is a connoisseur of secrets, a magician; thus all crafts include some kind off initiation and are handed down by an occult tradition. He who 'makes' real things is he who knows the secret of making them.
The Forge and the Crucible (1956).
„We two have secret signs,
known to us both but hidden from the world.“
— Homér Ancient Greek epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey 750
Ἔστι γὰρ ἥμιν
σήμαθ', ἃ δὴ καὶ νῶϊ κεκρυμμένα ἴδμεν ἀπ' ἄλλων.
XXIII. 109–110 (tr. Robert Fagles).
„Everything is both a trap and a display; the secret reality of the object is what the Other makes of it.“
— Jean Paul Sartre French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary cri… 1905 - 1980
„It is a complex subject: the Muslim Brotherhood comprises both a transnational network, with links in the UK, and national organisations in and outside the Islamic world. The movement is deliberately opaque, and habitually secretive.“
— David Cameron Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1966
„Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes:
But the name of the secret is Love!“
— Lewis Carroll English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832 - 1898
Chapter 19: A Fairy Duet
„Everybody has a secret world inside of them.“
— Neil Gaiman English fantasy writer 1960
Context: Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.
The Sandman
„If we knew each other's secrets, what comfort we would find.“
— John Churton Collins British literary critic 1848 - 1908
„Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.“
— John Jay Chapman American author 1862 - 1933
Memories and Milestones, Ch. 12: "President Eliot" HTTP://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/books?id=gFEPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22every+generation+is+a+secret+society+and+has+incommunicable+enthusiasms+tastes+and+interests+which+are+a+mystery+both+to+its+predecessors+and+to+posterity%22&pg=PA184#v=onepage (1915)
„Whoever wishes to quickly afford protection
To both himself and others
Should practice that holy secret:
The exchanging of self for others.“
— Šantidéva 8th-century Indian Buddhist monk and scholar 685
