More quotations & quotes

Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge
of the mind, because they drink at streams which we
have not yet made accessible to science.
Sigmund Freud


Quotations about Natural Selection:
" Man still bears in his bodily frame the
indelible stamp of his lowly origin "
Charles Darwin

"Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange
in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human
nature."
David Hume


 Emerson, from his famous Essay ~ History:- 
"In old Rome the public roads beginning at the Forum proceeded north, south, east, west, to the centre of
every province of the empire, making each market-town of Persia, Spain, and Britain pervious to the
soldiers of the capital: so out of the human heart go, as it were, highways to the heart of every object
in nature, to reduce it under the dominion of man. A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose
flower and fruitage is the world. His faculties refer to natures out of him, and predict the world he is
to inhabit, as the fins of the fish foreshow that water exists, or the wings of an eagle in the egg
presuppose air. He cannot live without a world."

  "There is one mind common to all individual men....
....Of the works of this mind history is the record. Man is explicable by nothing less than all his
history. All the facts of history pre-exist as laws. Each law in turn is made by circumstances
predominant. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain,
America, lie folded already in the first man. Epoch after epoch, camp, kingdom, empire, republic,
democracy, are merely the application of this manifold spirit to the manifold world."

From Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essay ~ History


Mystic
O Thou that changest earth into gold, And out of other earth madest the father of mankind, Thy business
is changing things and bestowing favours, My business is mistakes and forgetfulness and error. Change my
mistakes and forgetfulness to knowledge; I am altogether vile, make me temperate and meek.
Masnavi
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Quotes for influences of mine.

 Such souls,
Whose sudden visitations daze the world,
Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind
A voice that in the distance far away
Wakens the slumbering ages.
Henry Taylor



 I think continually of those who were truly great.
Who from the womb, remembered the soul's history
Through corridors of light.
Sir Stephen Spender


 Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone.
John Keats


Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Plato


Poetry is more philosophical and of higher value than history; for poetry tends to express the
universal, history the particular.
Aristotle