Provinces Quotes - Page 12

• Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.

  Jim Butcher

  Fire, Doctrine, Elements

  Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: The Dresden Files, Book Fourteen”, p.114, Hachette UK

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• He looked down at his empty glass. "One of the other ways in which I am different from my father," he said. "I am not interested in marrying where I do not love." I spoke in a jesting voice. "And of all the women in the eight provinces, you have not been able to find one you could love?" Now he looked at me again, and his face was completely serious. "That's the problem," he said. "There is one.

  Sharon Shinn

  Father, Glasses, Eight

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• The dark cloud, which had been cleared by the Phoenician discoveries, and finally dispelled by the arms of Caesar, again settled on the shores of the Atlantic, and a Roman province [Britain] was again lost among the fabulous Islands of the Ocean.

  Edward Gibbon

  Ocean, Dark, Clouds

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”

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• Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.

  Carl Jung

  Intuition, Doe, Reason

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• I perceive value, I confer value, I create value, I even create — or guarantee — existence. Hence, my compulsion to make “lists.” The things (Beethoven’s music, movies, business firms) won’t exist unless I signify my interest in them by at least noting down their names. Nothing exists unless I maintain it (by my interest, or my potential interest). This is an ultimate, mostly subliminal anxiety. Hence, I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.

  Susan Sontag

  Names, Anxiety, Principles

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.251, Macmillan

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• A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.

  Henry David Thoreau

  May, Strange, Stranger

  Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province of liberty; a limitation within which a citizen is a king.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Kings, Men, Ideas

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• The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it there every year. The business of the Mississippi, which it will accomplish in time, is methodically to transport all of Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico.

  Charles Kuralt

  Rain, Illinois, Years

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• A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in regard to Ireland, India and other possessions; and each should help to do this, because the greater the state, the more wrong and cruel is its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. Therefore, if we really wish to be what we profess to be, we must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening, and help this forward with all our might.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Russia, Growth, Suffering

  Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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