Browsing Quotes With Tag: prometheus-bound (8)
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“…This is the reef on which
His power shall strike and flounder, till he learns how great
A chasm lies between ruling and being ruled.” PrometheusSpeaker: AeschylusPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:27 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“…It comforts those in pain
To know beforehand all the pain they still must bear.” ChorusSpeaker: AeschylusPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:26 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“In those days they had eyes, but sight was meaningless;
Heard sounds, but could not listen; all their length of life
They passed like shapes in dreams, confused and purposeless.” PrometheusSpeaker: AeschylusPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:26 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“I caused men no longer to foresee their death.
…I planted firmly in their hearts blind hopefulness.
…And helping humans I found trouble for myself,
Yet I did not expect such punishment as this.” PrometheusSpeaker: AeschylusPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:26 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Knowing the power of Necessity is irresistible.” Prometheus
Speaker: AeschylusPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Power newly won is always harsh.” Hephaestus
Speaker: AeschylusPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
[Prometheus] believed in, and wanted to help, the human race as it is, full of both noble achievement and pitiable squalor, honoring both goodness and wickedness; a race where virtue, if rare, is at least costly.
Speaker: Philip VellacottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
God, the playwright says, is concerned that man should learn wisdom, and has marked out the path; and it is a path of suffering. Men are in one sense free to learn or not to learn; but the painful condition of learning is inexorable. The nature of God, in other words, comprises two elements or principles, one harsh, the other gentle.
Speaker: Philip VellacottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!