Tao Te Ching
Mary Shelley
1797 – 1851 CE
Caught between her famous father’s Enlightenment political theories (William Godwin) , her famous husband’s allegiance to the ethos of Romanticism (Percy), and her famous mother (Mary Wollstonecraft) who is considered a founder of feminist philosophy; Shelley’s work promoted Taoist-like values emphasizing collaboration over competition, compassion over personal gain, the true civilizing role of the feminine principle. Her novel, Frankenstein foreshadowed our modern era and how easily we can become enslaved and manipulated by our inventions. A voice against superstition and dogma, her books became a beacon for the era of Romanticism, liberal politics, and gender equality.
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Qing dynasty (1644 – 1912 CE)Sources
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Notes on Queen Mab
Quotes by Mary Shelley (7 quotes)
“You are my creator but I am your master; Obey!”
from Frankenstein
Chapters:
80. A Golden Age
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“how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be his world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.”
from Frankenstein
Chapters:
47. Effortless Success
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“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock.”
from Frankenstein
Chapters:
48. Unlearning
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“When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?”
from Frankenstein
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“He witnessed the sufferings of the poor, and was aware of the evils of ignorance. He desired to induce every rich man to despoil himself of superfluity, and to create a brotherhood of property and service, and was ready to be the first to lay down the advantages of his birth. He was of too uncompromising a disposition to join any party… it seemed as easy to look forward to the sort of millennium of freedom and brotherhood, which he thought the proper state of mankind… He saw—in a fervent call on his fellow creatures to share alike the blessings of the creation, to love and serve each other—the noblest work that life and time permitted him.”
from Notes on Queen Mab
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“Our Lord Byron — the fascinating — faulty — childish — philosophical being — daring the world — docile to a private circle — impetuous and indolent — gloomy and yet more gay than any other.”
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