— William Drummond of Hawthornden British writer 1585 - 1649
The Problem http://www.bartleby.com/40/197.html.
— Martin Heidegger German philosopher 1889 - 1976
p. 127
— Richard Francis Burton British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet,… 1821 - 1890
— Thomas Carlyle Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher 1795 - 1881
— Josef Pieper German philosopher 1904 - 1997
p. 53
— George Whitefield English minister and preacher 1714 - 1770
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 518.
— Julian of Norwich English theologian and anchoress 1342 - 1416
Variant: Accuse not thyself overmuch, deeming that thy tribulation and thy woe is all thy fault...
— Thomas Hardy English novelist and poet 1840 - 1928
phase the Sixth: The Convert, ch. XLVI
— Alfred Noyes English poet 1880 - 1958
Context: p>Thou whose deep ways are in the sea,
Whose footsteps are not known,
To-night a world that turned from Thee
Is waiting — at Thy Throne.The towering Babels that we raised
Where scoffing sophists brawl,
The little Antichrists we praised —
The night is on them all.</p
Dedication, later published as " A Prayer in Time of War http://www.poetseers.org/poets/alfred_noyes/a_prayer_in_time_of_war/"
— John Donne English poet 1572 - 1631
Satyre III (c. 1598)
— Marcus Aurelius Emperor of Ancient Rome 121 - 180
He that knows not what the world is, knows not where he is himself. He that knows not for what he was made, knows not what he is nor what the world is.
VIII, 52
— Roger Bacon medieval philosopher and theologian 1220 - 1292
cited in: Morris Kline (1969) Mathematics and the physical world. p. 1
— John Milton English epic poet 1608 - 1674
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont (1655)
