Secret Quotes - Page 13

• Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the categorical imperative.

  Jean Cocteau

  Mean, Men, Discipline

  "Diario de un desconocido". Libro de Jean Cocteau, 1988.

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• Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung.

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Nature, Age, Earth

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• La evolución no pretende explicar el origen de la vida. Es simplemente una historia del proceso de la vida. La evolución no tiene nada que ver con la causa secreta de la vida. Un hombre, por lo tanto, puede ser un evolucionista materialista o un evolucionista teísta; es decir, puede creer que la causa es una única fuerza impersonal no inteligente, o puede creer que la causa es un Dios sabio y benéfico.

  Lyman Abbott

  Sabio, Creer, Hombres

  Lyman Abbott (2009). “The Theology of an Evolutionist”, p.176, Cambridge University Press

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• In the ice of solitude man becomes most inexorably a question to himself, and just because the question pitilessly summons and draws into play his most secret life he becomes an experience to himself.

  Martin Buber

  Men, Ice, Play

  Martin Buber (2003). “Between Man and Man”, p.150, Routledge

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• Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Delight, Pure

  Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India), Aurobindo Ghose (1988). “Bulletin Du Centre International D'éducation Sri Aurobindo”

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• The present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets; for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also perhaps we have a vague hope of finding a clue to genius in such "revelations."

  André Malraux

  Men, Age, Genius

  "The Voices of Silence". Book by Andre Malraux, Doubleday, Part III, Chapter VI, 1953.

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• Monarch of earth, I shall confess my secret craft: I've always fought to purify wild flame to light, and kindle whatever light I found to burst in flame.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Light, Flames, Crafts

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1958). "La Odisea una secuela moderna"

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• I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.

  Anne Lamott

  Trying, Giants, Pandas

  Anne Lamott (1980). “Hard Laughter: 2”, Viking Adult

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• Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah

  Leonard Cohen

  Kings, Fall, Baffled

  Song: Hallelujah

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• I smile when I'm angry , I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right , and I'd die for the truth in my secret life .

  Leonard Cohen

  Lying, I Smile, Cheat

  Song: In My Secret Life, Album: Ten New Songs, 2001

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• What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [...] Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.

  Camille Paglia

  Thinking, Vampire, Tasks

  "Sexual Personae: Arte y decadencia de Nefertiti a Emily Dickinson". Libro de Camille Paglia, 1990.

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• Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it.

  Arthur Ayuda

  Importancia

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). "Pensamientos en el Claustro y la Multitud"

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• En una noche oscura la llama del amor ardía en mi pecho
  Y con una linterna brillante huí de mi casa mientras todos descansaban en silencio.
  Envuelto por la noche y por la secreta escalera rápidamente huí.
  El velo ocultaba mis ojos mientras todos dentro yacían silenciosos como muertos.

  Juan de la Cruz

  Ojo, Noche, Llamas

  "The Dark Night Of The Soul" de Juan de la Cruz, variante adaptada para música por Loreena McKennitt, 1994.

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• Ah, sí, cotilleos. Te oí en la radio secreta. Conoces a la niña radio del diablo.

  George Harrison

  Children, Gossip, Devil

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• Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.

  Hugh Prather

  Forgiving, Ancient

  1982 The Quiet Answer.

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• I believe in one secret and ineffable Lord; and in one Star in the Company of Stars of whose fire we are created, and to which we shall return; and in one Father of Life, Mystery of Mystery, in His name Chaos, the sole viceregent of the Sun upon the Earth; and in one Air the nourisher of all that breathes. And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us all, and in one Womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name Babalon.

  Aleister Crowley

  Madre, Estrellas, Padre

  "Liber XV, The Gnostic Mass". Book by Aleister Crowley, www.scarletwoman.org. 1913.

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• When you learn to make everybody happy, you will possess the golden secret of how to milk the contented voters. But do it in such a way that they won't think you want them to vote for you just because you need the money. They need the money, and besides, they can think up other reasons if they try.

  Gracie Allen

  Thinking, Trying, Want

  "Cómo llegar a ser Presidente". Libro de Gracie Allen, 1940.

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• Quien es abierto sin ligereza; generoso sin derroche; secreto sin astucia; humilde sin mezquindad; audaz sin insolencia; cauto sin ansiedad; regular, pero no formal; suave, pero no tímido; firme, pero no tiránico - está hecho para pasar la prueba del honor, la amistad, la virtud.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Humble, Anxiety, Honor

  "Aforismos sobre el hombre. Traducido del manuscrito original del reverendo John Caspar Lavater, ciudadano de Zuric ; [Una línea de Juvenal]" por Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• Seek one woman whom thou canst trust, and to her who lovest thee best, tell thy secrets. She will deliver thee from the hands of strange women, she will expose their craft; and of her who flattereth thee, will she make known the reason.

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Hands, Crafts

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• Enough, I shall be understood in ten years by people who will be doing what you do today. Then my geysers will be known, my ice floes will be seen, the secret of adulterating my poisons will have been learned, the games of my soul will be revealed.

  Antonin Artaud

  Years, Ice, Games

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.86, Univ of California Press

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• Harvey , Galileo , Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries of Natural Law, revealers of the secrets of a New Order of the Ages. After all, the movement eventually came to be called the Age of Enlightenment.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Order, Law, Age

  Kenneth Rexroth (1968). “Classics Revisited”, p.132, New Directions Publishing

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• Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.

  Demóstenes

  Clouds, Secret Places, Denial

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• Christ is known only by them that receive Him into their love, their faith, their deep want; known only as He is enshrined within, felt as a Divine force, breathed in the inspirations of the secret life.

  Horace Bushnell

  Inspiration, Want, Christ

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• But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?

  Anthony Trollope

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.1345, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.

  Anthony Trollope

  Half, World, Way

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.4576, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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