"The notion that books may so broaden and deepen one's knowledge of life, and so sharpens one's perceptions, that he can live more wisely and judge more intelligently, has dropped out of...to a large extent, out of Victorian, in fact the modern, mind." -- The Victorian Frame of Mind, Walter E. Houghton, 1957, p. 119. (Extracts from recent readings. Photo at sunset atop a Mt Scopus building.)
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Goethe and societal leaders
"Niemand als wer sich ganz verläugnet ist werth zu herrschen, und kan herrschen." (13 May 1780, Tagebücher)
-- War in Goethe's Writings, Edward T. Larkin, 1992, p. 18.
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