 | Jamie Owen Daniel, Tom Moylan - 1997 - 262 pagini
...countervailing strand of dialogic energy begins with the epigram from Lessing that introduces the section: "It is not true that the shortest line is always the straightest" ( 1 ,354). In this quotational gesture, he makes an opening cautionary gambit against the temptation to... | |
 | Thomas P. Saine - 1997 - 388 pagini
...because of this inscrutableness. Let me not despair of thee, even if thy steps appear to me to be going backward. It is not true that the shortest line is always the straight one" (§91). His metaphor for the development of the human race is "education," which of course... | |
 | Anthony Lejeune - 2001 - 344 pagini
...other way round: their collective existence determines their consciousness. Being human is not easy. It is not true that the shortest line is always the straightest. It is often better to be in chains than to be free. Something must happen! Es war getan, fast eh' gedacht.... | |
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Let me not despair of you, even if your steps should seem to me to be going backward. It is not true that the shortest line is always the straight line. 