Restricted Divine Command

Famous quotes containing the words restricted, divine and/or command:

    “Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.”
    —George Steiner (b. 1929)

    “Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.”
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    “By his command these words are cut:
    Cast a cold eye
    On life, on death.
    Horseman, pass by!”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)