Famous quotes containing the words man in the, man, iron, mask, the and/or prisoner:
“Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)
“To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“It was then that the iron entered my soul.”
—Margaret Thatcher (b. 1925)
“I imagine, on the benches of an assembly, the most intrepid of thinkers, a brilliant mind, one of those men who, when they ascend the tribune, feel it beneath them like the tripod of the oracle, suddenly grow in stature and become colossal, surpass by a head the massive appearances that mask reality, and see clearly the future over the high, frowning wall of the present.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“Find in middle air
An eagle on the wing,
Recognise the five
That makes the Muses sing.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)