Fiat Lux Quotes

The cry: Audacity! is a Fiat lux. It is necessary, for the sake of the forward march of the human race, that there should be proud lessons of courage permanently on the heights. Daring deeds dazzle history and are one of man’s great sources of light. The dawn dares when it rises. To attempt, to brave, to persist, to persevere, to be faithful to one’s self, to grasp fate bodily, to astound catastrophe by the small amount of fear that it occasions us, now to affront unjust power, again to insult drunken victory, to hold one’s position, to stand one’s ground; that is the example which nations need, that is the light which electrifies them. The same formidable lightning proceeds from the torch of Prometheus to Cambronne’s short pipe.

Le cri : Audace ! est un Fiat lux. Il faut, pour la marche en avant du genre humain, qu’il y ait sur les sommets, en permanence, de fières leçons de courage. Les témérités éblouissent l’histoire et sont une des grandes clartés de l’homme. L’aurore ose quand elle se lève. Tenter, braver, persister, persévérer, s’être fidèle à soi-même, prendre corps à corps le destin, étonner la catastrophe par le peu de peur qu’elle nous fait, tantôt affronter la puissance injuste, tantôt insulter la victoire ivre, tenir bon, tenir tête ; voilà l’exemple dont les peuples ont besoin, et la lumière qui les électrise. Le même éclair formidable va de la torche de Prométhée au brûle-gueule de Cambronne.

Atreverse; el progreso se obtiene a este precio. Todas las conquistas sublimes son, más o menos, premios al atrevimiento. Para que la Revolución exista, no basta con que Montesquieu la presienta, ni con que Diderot la predique, ni con que Beaumarchais la anuncie, ni con que Condorcet la calcule, ni con que Arouet la prepare, ni con que Rousseau la premedite; es preciso que Danton se atreva. El grito «¡Audacia!» es un fiat lux. Para la marcha hacia delante del género humano es preciso que encuentre en las cumbres de la sociedad ejemplos permanentes y altivos de valor. La temeridad deslumbra a la historia, y es una gran luz para el hombre. La aurora es audaz cuando se eleva sobre el horizonte. Intentar, desafiar, persistir, perseverar, ser fiel a sí mismo, hacer frente al destino, asombrar a la catástrofe por el poco miedo que nos infunde, ya sea enfrentándose a los poderes injustos o insultando a la victoria ebria, resistir y persistir; he aquí el ejemplo que necesitan los pueblos y la luz que los electriza. El mismo formidable relámpago va de la antorcha de Prometeo al botafuego de Cambronne.

SECTION XI.--The Strength of Simplicity. The soul in the state of abandonment knows how to see God even in the proud who oppose His action. All creatures, good or evil, reveal Him to it. __________________________________________________________________ The whole practice of the simple soul is in the accomplishment of the will of God. This it respects even in those unruly actions by which the proud attempt to depreciate it. The proud soul despises one in whose sight it is as nothing, who beholds only God in it, and in all its actions. Often it imagines that the modesty of the simple soul is a mark of appreciation for itself; when, all the time, it is only a sign of that loving fear of God and of His holy will as shown to it in the person of the proud. No, poor fool, the simple soul fears you not at all. You excite its compassion; it is answering God when you think it is speaking to you: it is with Him that it believes it has to do; it regards you only as one of His slaves, or rather as a mask with which He disguises Himself. Therefore the more you take a high tone, the lower you become in its estimation; and when you think to take it by surprise, it surprises you. Your wiles and violence are just favours from Heaven. The proud soul cannot comprehend itself, but the simple soul, with the light of faith, can very clearly see through it. The finding of the divine action in all that occurs at each moment, in and around us, is true science, a continuous revelation of truth, and an unceasingly renewed intercourse with God. It is a rejoicing with the Spouse, not in secret, nor by stealth, in the cellar, or the vineyard, but openly, and in public, without any human respect. It is a fund of peace, of joy, of love, and of satisfaction with God who is seen, known, or rather, believed in, living and operating in the most perfect manner in everything that happens. It is the beginning of eternal happiness not yet perfectly realised and tasted, except in an incomplete and hidden manner. The Holy Spirit, who arranges all the pieces on the board of life, will, by this fruitful and continual presence of His action, say at the hour of death, "fiat lux," "let there be light" (Gen. i, 14), and then will be seen the treasures which faith hides in this abyss of peace and contentment with God, and which will be found in those things that have been every moment done, or suffered for Him. When God gives Himself thus, all that is common becomes wonderful; and it is on this account that nothing seems to be so, because this way is, in itself, extraordinary. Consequently it is unnecessary to make it full of strange and unsuitable marvels. It is, in itself, a miracle, a revelation, a constant joy even with the prevalence of minor faults. But it is a miracle which, while rendering all common and sensible things wonderful, has nothing in itself that is sensibly marvellous.

But it was Genesis that got him, the Vulgate that was his namesake Saint Jerome’s work. Genesis, especially chapter one, verse three. Dixitque Deus: fiat lux. Et facta est lux. Translated by himself into his personal Bombay “Wulgate”: And God said, Cheap Italian motor car, beauty soap of the film star. And there was Lux. Please, Daddy, why did God want a small Fiat and a bar of soap, and also please, why did he get the soap only? Why couldn’t he make the car?

Fiat lux.

La poesía es el vocablo virgen de todo prejuicio; el verbo creado y creador, la palabra recién nacida. Ella se desarrolla en el alba primera del mundo. Su precisión no consiste en denominar las cosas, sino en no alejarse del alba. Su vocabulario es infinito porque ella no cree en la certeza de todas sus posibles combinaciones. Y su rol es convertir las probabilidades en certeza. Su valor está marcado por la distancia que va de lo que vemos a lo que imaginamos. Para ella no hay pasado ni futuro. El poeta crea fuera del mundo que existe el que debiera existir. Yo tengo derecho a querer ver una flor que anda o un rebaño de ovejas atravesando el arco iris, ... ... Las células del poeta están amasadas en el primer dolor y guardan el ritmo del primer espasmo. En la garganta del poeta el universo busca su voz, una voz inmortal. ... Toda Poesía válida tiende al último límite de la imaginación. Y no sólo de la imaginación, sino del espíritu mismo, porque la poesía no es otra cosa que el último horizonte, que es, a su vez, la arista en donde los extremos se tocan, en donde no hay contradicción ni duda. Al llegar a ese lindero final el encadenamiento habitual de los fenómenos rompe su lógica, y al otro lado, en donde empiezan las tierras del poeta, la cadena se rehace en una lógica nueva. ... Hay en su garganta un incendio inextinguible. Hay además ese balanceo de mar entre dos estrellas. Y hay ese Fiat Lux que lleva clavado en su lengua.

Dixitque Deus: fiat lux. Et facta est lux. Translated by himself into his personal Bombay “Wulgate”: And God said, Cheap Italian motor car, beauty soap of the film star. And there was Lux. Please, Daddy, why did God want a small Fiat and a bar of soap, and also please, why did he get the soap only? Why couldn’t he make the car? And why not a better car, Daddy? He could’ve asked for a Jesus Chrysler, no?

Kas buvo pirmos minties autorius, niekas nežino ir nesužinos. Juk negalėjo nulipusi nuo medžio beždžionė imti ir leptelti kokio nors žodžio. Įsivaizduokite beždžionę, kuri išsidrebia iš medžio ir sako fiat lux! Arba — I love rock'n'roll! Košmaras!

el cerillo revela las distancias entre las cosas acusa oposiciones simetrías cuando todo era negro y luego todo al negro vuelve

toda de uñas minúsculas copiosa absurda mínima ridícula encogida y eres tan una migaja que la nube –mejor mira la nube y piensa en ella

As the human body is a microcosmos, the pregnant women's body is a microgenesis. Readings of Your incarnation in Mary's body often suggest this, even if they do not claim it outright. Mary's body is presented as a new creation. Mary's words "let it be done to me" (fiat mihi in the longtime language of the Church) echo Your words at creation "let there me light" (fiat lux). The Spirit hovering over the waters of the deep, formless and empty, hovers over the waters of Mary's womb, once again bringing life into a dark void.

Fiat lux