Quotes & Misc.
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Here you can find hundreds of interesting quotations from dozens of historical figures past and present that I have compiled to liven up the pictures I present with some literary elaboration, often leaning towards waxing poetic.
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Misc. Quotes
Misc. Quotes
« Photography is a Bastard left by Science on the Doorstep of Art. »
« Photography is a Bastard left by Science on the Doorstep of Art. »
-Peter Galassi (Chief Curator of Photography MoMA NYC)
-Peter Galassi (Chief Curator of Photography MoMA NYC)
« Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments; each of them has the value of a complete existence. »
« Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments; each of them has the value of a complete existence. »
- Eadweard Muybridge (English Photographer 1830-1904)
- Eadweard Muybridge (English Photographer 1830-1904)
« Death is the handmaiden of the pilot, sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God »
« Death is the handmaiden of the pilot, sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God »
-Albert Scott Crossfield (American Pilot 1921-2006)
-Albert Scott Crossfield (American Pilot 1921-2006)
« ...what counts is not what you look at, but how you look at it. »
« ...what counts is not what you look at, but how you look at it. »
- Andreas Feininger (Principles of Composition in Photography)
- Andreas Feininger (Principles of Composition in Photography)
« Photography looks like pictures, but it's really about ideas »
« Photography looks like pictures, but it's really about ideas »
- Joel Meyerowitz (American Photographer 1938-Present)
- Joel Meyerowitz (American Photographer 1938-Present)
« It is not the person ignorant of writing, but the one ignorant of photography, who will be the illiterate of the future »
« It is not the person ignorant of writing, but the one ignorant of photography, who will be the illiterate of the future »
- László Moholy-Nagy (Photographer 1895-1946)
- László Moholy-Nagy (Photographer 1895-1946)
« It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. » - Conan O'Brien (Actor 1963-Present)
« It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. » - Conan O'Brien (Actor 1963-Present)
« It's hard to tell the story if you don't have a stunning image to back it up. »
« It's hard to tell the story if you don't have a stunning image to back it up. »
- Ray Villard (Hubble Space Telescope public relations director)
- Ray Villard (Hubble Space Telescope public relations director)
« Every once in a while, at the end of the day, when I'm most exhausted and hungry, something - a shaft of light, an unexpected gesture, an odd juxtaposition - suddenly reveals a photograph. It's almost as if I had to go through all those hours of frustration and failure in order to get to the place where I could finally see that singular moment at day's end »
« Every once in a while, at the end of the day, when I'm most exhausted and hungry, something - a shaft of light, an unexpected gesture, an odd juxtaposition - suddenly reveals a photograph. It's almost as if I had to go through all those hours of frustration and failure in order to get to the place where I could finally see that singular moment at day's end »
- Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb (Photographer)
- Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb (Photographer)
« “As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.” »
« “As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.” »
- Norman Foster (British Architect)
- Norman Foster (British Architect)
« There are two things I wanted to do. I wanted to show the things that had to be corrected. I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated. »
« There are two things I wanted to do. I wanted to show the things that had to be corrected. I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated. »
- Lewis Hine (American Photographer 1874-1940)
- Lewis Hine (American Photographer 1874-1940)
« It occurred to me that all photography is interpretation. Its primary illusion is realism, but ultimately it only uses real elements for expression »
« It occurred to me that all photography is interpretation. Its primary illusion is realism, but ultimately it only uses real elements for expression »
- Richard Misrach (American Photographer 1949-Present)
- Richard Misrach (American Photographer 1949-Present)
« I find in most cases that what the artist says about what he is going to do, or what he has done, is an inadequate and not very meaningful statement. The thing is the work itself, and in a sense the artist should not be asked for the philosophy of life upon which he bases his work. The work is the basis. The work is the thing itself. »
« I find in most cases that what the artist says about what he is going to do, or what he has done, is an inadequate and not very meaningful statement. The thing is the work itself, and in a sense the artist should not be asked for the philosophy of life upon which he bases his work. The work is the basis. The work is the thing itself. »
- Paul Strand (Photographer 1890-1976)
- Paul Strand (Photographer 1890-1976)
« Photography, born of and shaped by science, transformed the nature of observation and stretched the parameters of knowledge and humanity's sense of itself [...] Photographs were immediately marshalled into service to help answer the most practical and existential of questions: What is that? Where and who are we? What happens next? »
« Photography, born of and shaped by science, transformed the nature of observation and stretched the parameters of knowledge and humanity's sense of itself [...] Photographs were immediately marshalled into service to help answer the most practical and existential of questions: What is that? Where and who are we? What happens next? »
- Marvin Heiferman (Photo Curator and Historian 1948-Present)
- Marvin Heiferman (Photo Curator and Historian 1948-Present)
« Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. [It is] a major force in explaining man to man. »
« Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. [It is] a major force in explaining man to man. »
- Edward Steichen (American Photographer 1879-1973)
- Edward Steichen (American Photographer 1879-1973)
« Any architectural work that does not express serenity is an error »
« Any architectural work that does not express serenity is an error »
- Luis Barragán (Mexican Architect 1902-1988)
- Luis Barragán (Mexican Architect 1902-1988)
« If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly … very slowly. »
« If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly … very slowly. »
- Gypsy Rose Lee (American Burlesque Performer 1911-1970)
- Gypsy Rose Lee (American Burlesque Performer 1911-1970)
« A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know. »
« A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know. »
- Mistinguett, Born Jeanne Florentine Bourgeois (French Actress/Singer 1873-1956)
- Mistinguett, Born Jeanne Florentine Bourgeois (French Actress/Singer 1873-1956)
Politicians
Politicians
« There are no "human" oppressors. Oppressors have lost their humanity. »
« There are no "human" oppressors. Oppressors have lost their humanity. »
- Bernard Sanders (American Politician 1941-Present)
- Bernard Sanders (American Politician 1941-Present)
« For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. For too long as a nation, we have been lulled by the anthem of self-interest. For a decade, led by Ronald Reagan, self-aggrandizement has been the full-throated cry of this society: 'I've got mine, so why don't you get yours' and 'What's in it for me?' »
« For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. For too long as a nation, we have been lulled by the anthem of self-interest. For a decade, led by Ronald Reagan, self-aggrandizement has been the full-throated cry of this society: 'I've got mine, so why don't you get yours' and 'What's in it for me?' »
- Joe Biden (American President 1942-Present)
- Joe Biden (American President 1942-Present)
« It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing. »
« It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing. »
- Winston Churchill (UK PM 1874-1965)
- Winston Churchill (UK PM 1874-1965)
« Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal
« Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal
society. »
society. »
- Sonia Sotomayor (American Supreme Court Justice 1954-Present)
- Sonia Sotomayor (American Supreme Court Justice 1954-Present)
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
« Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. »
« Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. »
- Abraham Lincoln (American president 1809-1865)
- Abraham Lincoln (American president 1809-1865)
« These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people... »
« These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people... »
- Abraham Lincoln (American president 1809-1865)
- Abraham Lincoln (American president 1809-1865)
« The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me... Here, without contemplating consequences, before High Heaven, and in the face of the world, I swear eternal fidelity to the just cause, as I deem it, of the land of my life, my liberty and my love. And who, that thinks with me, will not fearlessly adopt the oath that I take? »
« The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me... Here, without contemplating consequences, before High Heaven, and in the face of the world, I swear eternal fidelity to the just cause, as I deem it, of the land of my life, my liberty and my love. And who, that thinks with me, will not fearlessly adopt the oath that I take? »
- Abraham Lincoln (American president 1809-1865)
- Abraham Lincoln (American president 1809-1865)
« The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. »
« The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. »
- Abraham Lincoln (American president 1809-1865)
- Abraham Lincoln (American president 1809-1865)
« As leaving some grand waterfall,
« As leaving some grand waterfall,
We, lingering, list its roar —
We, lingering, list its roar —
So memory will hallow all
So memory will hallow all
We've known, but know no more. »
We've known, but know no more. »
- Abraham Lincoln (American president 1809-1865) from "My Childhood's Home I See Again"
- Abraham Lincoln (American president 1809-1865) from "My Childhood's Home I See Again"
« I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others. When I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. »
« I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others. When I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. »
- Abraham Lincoln (American president 1809-1865)
- Abraham Lincoln (American president 1809-1865)
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
« The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious »
« The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious »
- Albert Einstein (German Physicist 1879-1955)
- Albert Einstein (German Physicist 1879-1955)
« Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires, and to develop his innate abilities. As a social being, he seeks to gain the recognition and affection of his fellow human beings, to share in their pleasures, to comfort them in their sorrows, and to improve their conditions of life. Only the existence of these varied, frequently conflicting, strivings accounts for the special character of a man, and their specific combination determines the extent to which an individual can achieve an inner equilibrium and can contribute to the well-being of society. »
« Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires, and to develop his innate abilities. As a social being, he seeks to gain the recognition and affection of his fellow human beings, to share in their pleasures, to comfort them in their sorrows, and to improve their conditions of life. Only the existence of these varied, frequently conflicting, strivings accounts for the special character of a man, and their specific combination determines the extent to which an individual can achieve an inner equilibrium and can contribute to the well-being of society. »
- Albert Einstein (German Physicist 1879-1955)
- Albert Einstein (German Physicist 1879-1955)
« The abstract concept "society" means to the individual human being the sum total of his direct and indirect relations to his contemporaries and to all the people of earlier generations. The individual is able to think, feel, strive, and work by himself; but he depends so much upon society — in his physical, intellectual, and emotional existence — that it is impossible to think of him, or to understand him, outside the framework of society. It is "society" which provides man with food, clothing, a home, the tools of work, language, the forms of thought, and most of the content of thought; his life is made possible through the labor and the accomplishments of the many millions past and present who are all hidden behind the small word "society." »
« The abstract concept "society" means to the individual human being the sum total of his direct and indirect relations to his contemporaries and to all the people of earlier generations. The individual is able to think, feel, strive, and work by himself; but he depends so much upon society — in his physical, intellectual, and emotional existence — that it is impossible to think of him, or to understand him, outside the framework of society. It is "society" which provides man with food, clothing, a home, the tools of work, language, the forms of thought, and most of the content of thought; his life is made possible through the labor and the accomplishments of the many millions past and present who are all hidden behind the small word "society." »
- Albert Einstein (German Physicist 1879-1955)
- Albert Einstein (German Physicist 1879-1955)
« I have now reached the point where I may indicate briefly what to me constitutes the essence of the crisis of our time. It concerns the relationship of the individual to society. The individual has become more conscious than ever of his dependence upon society. But he does not experience this dependence as a positive asset, as an organic tie, as a protective force, but rather as a threat to his natural rights, or even to his economic existence...
« I have now reached the point where I may indicate briefly what to me constitutes the essence of the crisis of our time. It concerns the relationship of the individual to society. The individual has become more conscious than ever of his dependence upon society. But he does not experience this dependence as a positive asset, as an organic tie, as a protective force, but rather as a threat to his natural rights, or even to his economic existence...
... All human beings, whatever their position in society, are suffering from this process of deterioration. Unknowingly prisoners of their own egotism, they feel insecure, lonely, and deprived of the naive, simple, and unsophisticated enjoyment of life. Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society. »
... All human beings, whatever their position in society, are suffering from this process of deterioration. Unknowingly prisoners of their own egotism, they feel insecure, lonely, and deprived of the naive, simple, and unsophisticated enjoyment of life. Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society. »
- Albert Einstein (German Physicist 1879-1955)
- Albert Einstein (German Physicist 1879-1955)
« The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. We see before us a huge community of producers the members of which are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor — not by force, but on the whole in faithful compliance with legally established rules. »
« The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. We see before us a huge community of producers the members of which are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor — not by force, but on the whole in faithful compliance with legally established rules. »
- Albert Einstein (German Physicist 1879-1955)
- Albert Einstein (German Physicist 1879-1955)
« Production is carried on for profit, not for use. There is no provision that all those able and willing to work will always be in a position to find employment; an "army of unemployed" almost always exists. The worker is constantly in fear of losing his job. Since unemployed and poorly paid workers do not provide a profitable market, the production of consumers' goods is restricted, and great hardship is the consequence. Technological progress frequently results in more unemployment rather than in an easing of the burden of work for all. The profit motive, in conjunction with competition among capitalists, is responsible for an instability in the accumulation and utilization of capital which leads to increasingly severe depressions. Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals. »
« Production is carried on for profit, not for use. There is no provision that all those able and willing to work will always be in a position to find employment; an "army of unemployed" almost always exists. The worker is constantly in fear of losing his job. Since unemployed and poorly paid workers do not provide a profitable market, the production of consumers' goods is restricted, and great hardship is the consequence. Technological progress frequently results in more unemployment rather than in an easing of the burden of work for all. The profit motive, in conjunction with competition among capitalists, is responsible for an instability in the accumulation and utilization of capital which leads to increasingly severe depressions. Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals. »
- Albert Einstein (German Physicist 1879-1955)
- Albert Einstein (German Physicist 1879-1955)
« I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion. A planned economy, which adjusts production to the needs of the community, would distribute the work to be done among all those able to work and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman, and child. The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society. Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied by the complete enslavement of the individual. The achievement of socialism requires the solution of some extremely difficult socio-political problems: how is it possible, in view of the far-reaching centralisation of political and economic power, to prevent bureaucracy from becoming all-powerful and overweening? How can the rights of the individual be protected and therewith a democratic counterweight to the power of bureaucracy be assured? »
« I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion. A planned economy, which adjusts production to the needs of the community, would distribute the work to be done among all those able to work and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman, and child. The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society. Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied by the complete enslavement of the individual. The achievement of socialism requires the solution of some extremely difficult socio-political problems: how is it possible, in view of the far-reaching centralisation of political and economic power, to prevent bureaucracy from becoming all-powerful and overweening? How can the rights of the individual be protected and therewith a democratic counterweight to the power of bureaucracy be assured? »
- Albert Einstein (German Physicist 1879-1955)
- Albert Einstein (German Physicist 1879-1955)
« Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights. »
« Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights. »
- Albert Einstein (German Physicist 1879-1955)
- Albert Einstein (German Physicist 1879-1955)
« A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The striving to free oneself from this delusion is the one issue of true religion. Not to nourish the delusion but to try to overcome it is the way to reach the attainable measure of peace of mind. »
« A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The striving to free oneself from this delusion is the one issue of true religion. Not to nourish the delusion but to try to overcome it is the way to reach the attainable measure of peace of mind. »
- Albert Einstein (German Physicist 1879-1955)
- Albert Einstein (German Physicist 1879-1955)
« I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs. »
« I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs. »
- Albert Einstein (German Physicist 1879-1955) after joining the Montreal Pipesmokers Club
- Albert Einstein (German Physicist 1879-1955) after joining the Montreal Pipesmokers Club
« ...the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. »
« ...the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. »
- Albert Einstein (German Physicist 1879-1955)
- Albert Einstein (German Physicist 1879-1955)
« The strange thing about growing old is that the intimate identification with the here and now is slowly lost; one feels transposed into infinity, more or less alone, no longer in hope or fear, only observing. »
« The strange thing about growing old is that the intimate identification with the here and now is slowly lost; one feels transposed into infinity, more or less alone, no longer in hope or fear, only observing. »
- Albert Einstein (German Physicist 1879-1955)
- Albert Einstein (German Physicist 1879-1955)
« To think with fear of the end of one's life is pretty general with human beings. It is one of the means nature uses to conserve the life of the species. Approached rationally that fear is the most unjustified of all fears, for there is no risk of any accidents to one who is dead or not yet born. In short, the fear is stupid but it cannot be helped. »
« To think with fear of the end of one's life is pretty general with human beings. It is one of the means nature uses to conserve the life of the species. Approached rationally that fear is the most unjustified of all fears, for there is no risk of any accidents to one who is dead or not yet born. In short, the fear is stupid but it cannot be helped. »
- Albert Einstein (German Physicist 1879-1955)
- Albert Einstein (German Physicist 1879-1955)
« The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this. ... For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything 'chosen' about them. »
« The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this. ... For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything 'chosen' about them. »
- Albert Einstein (German Physicist 1879-1955)
- Albert Einstein (German Physicist 1879-1955)
« I made one great mistake in my life—when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was some justification—the danger that the Germans would make them. »
« I made one great mistake in my life—when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was some justification—the danger that the Germans would make them. »
- Albert Einstein (German Physicist 1879-1955)
- Albert Einstein (German Physicist 1879-1955)
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great
« Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people, to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would be glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing here next to me, since we are united by the same language, the same blood and the same visions. »
« Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people, to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would be glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing here next to me, since we are united by the same language, the same blood and the same visions. »
- Alexander the Great (King of Macedon 356-323 BCE)
- Alexander the Great (King of Macedon 356-323 BCE)
« If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes. »
« If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes. »
- Alexander the Great (King of Macedon 356-323 BCE)
- Alexander the Great (King of Macedon 356-323 BCE)
« There is nothing impossible to him who will try. »
« There is nothing impossible to him who will try. »
- Alexander the Great (King of Macedon 356-323 BCE)
- Alexander the Great (King of Macedon 356-323 BCE)
« For my part, I assure you, I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion. »
« For my part, I assure you, I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion. »
- Alexander the Great (King of Macedon 356-323 BCE)
- Alexander the Great (King of Macedon 356-323 BCE)
« A king does not kill messengers. »
« A king does not kill messengers. »
- Alexander the Great (King of Macedon 356-323 BCE)
- Alexander the Great (King of Macedon 356-323 BCE)
Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz
« Photography is not an art. Neither is painting, nor sculpture, literature or music. They are only different media for the individual to express his aesthetic feelings.. .You do not have to be a painter or a sculptor to be an artist. You may be a shoemaker. You may be creative as such. And, if so, you are a greater artist than the majority of the painters whose work is shown in the art galleries of today. »
« Photography is not an art. Neither is painting, nor sculpture, literature or music. They are only different media for the individual to express his aesthetic feelings.. .You do not have to be a painter or a sculptor to be an artist. You may be a shoemaker. You may be creative as such. And, if so, you are a greater artist than the majority of the painters whose work is shown in the art galleries of today. »
- Alfred Stieglitz (American Photographer 1864-1946)
- Alfred Stieglitz (American Photographer 1864-1946)
« Man: [looking at a Stieglitz's photo of 'Equivalents'] Is this a photograph of water?
Stieglitz: What difference does it make of what it is a photograph?
Man: But is it a photograph of water?
Stieglitz: I tell you it does not matter.
Man: Well, then, is it a picture of the sky?
Stieglitz: It happens to be a picture of the sky. But I cannot understand why that is of any importance.
« Man: [looking at a Stieglitz's photo of 'Equivalents'] Is this a photograph of water?
Stieglitz: What difference does it make of what it is a photograph?
Man: But is it a photograph of water?
Stieglitz: I tell you it does not matter.
Man: Well, then, is it a picture of the sky?
Stieglitz: It happens to be a picture of the sky. But I cannot understand why that is of any importance.
In: 'Minor White, A Living Remembrance', Dorothy Norman, in 'Aperture', 1984, p. 9.
In: 'Minor White, A Living Remembrance', Dorothy Norman, in 'Aperture', 1984, p. 9.
w:Dorothy Norman recorded a conversation between Stieglitz and a man, looking at one of his 'Equivalents' prints »
w:Dorothy Norman recorded a conversation between Stieglitz and a man, looking at one of his 'Equivalents' prints »
- Alfred Stieglitz (American Photographer 1864-1946)
- Alfred Stieglitz (American Photographer 1864-1946)
Amelia Erhart
Amelia Erhart
« Courage is the price that
Life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release
From little things:
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear,
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings. »
« Courage is the price that
Life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release
From little things:
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear,
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings. »
-Amelia Earhart (American Pilot 1897-1937 (Missing))
-Amelia Earhart (American Pilot 1897-1937 (Missing))
« How can Life grant us boon of living, compensate
For dull grey ugliness and pregnant hate
Unless we dare
The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay
With courage to behold the restless day,
And count it fair. »
« How can Life grant us boon of living, compensate
For dull grey ugliness and pregnant hate
Unless we dare
The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay
With courage to behold the restless day,
And count it fair. »
-Amelia Earhart (American Pilot 1897-1937 (Missing))
-Amelia Earhart (American Pilot 1897-1937 (Missing))
« The time to worry is three months before a flight. Decide then whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying. To worry is to add another hazard. It retards reactions, makes one unfit. . . . Hamlet would have been a bad aviator. He worried too much. »
« The time to worry is three months before a flight. Decide then whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying. To worry is to add another hazard. It retards reactions, makes one unfit. . . . Hamlet would have been a bad aviator. He worried too much. »
-Amelia Earhart (American Pilot 1897-1937 (Missing))
-Amelia Earhart (American Pilot 1897-1937 (Missing))
« The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. »
« The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. »
-Amelia Earhart (American Pilot 1897-1937 (Missing))
-Amelia Earhart (American Pilot 1897-1937 (Missing))
« The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure. The process is its own reward. »
« The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure. The process is its own reward. »
-Amelia Earhart (American Pilot 1897-1937 (Missing))
-Amelia Earhart (American Pilot 1897-1937 (Missing))
« Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture. »
« Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture. »
-Amelia Earhart (American Pilot 1897-1937 (Missing))
-Amelia Earhart (American Pilot 1897-1937 (Missing))
« In my life I had come to realize that when things were going very well indeed it was just the time to anticipate trouble. And, conversely, I learned from pleasant experience that at the most despairing crisis, when all looked sour beyond words, some delightful 'break' was apt to lurk just around the corner. »
« In my life I had come to realize that when things were going very well indeed it was just the time to anticipate trouble. And, conversely, I learned from pleasant experience that at the most despairing crisis, when all looked sour beyond words, some delightful 'break' was apt to lurk just around the corner. »
-Amelia Earhart (American Pilot 1897-1937 (Missing))
-Amelia Earhart (American Pilot 1897-1937 (Missing))
« When I go, I’d like best to go in my plane, quickly. »
« When I go, I’d like best to go in my plane, quickly. »
-Amelia Earhart (American Pilot 1897-1937 (Missing))
-Amelia Earhart (American Pilot 1897-1937 (Missing))
Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams
« Take advantage of everything; be dominated by nothing except your own convictions. »
« Take advantage of everything; be dominated by nothing except your own convictions. »
-Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984)
-Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984)
« Do not lose sight of the essential importance of craft; every worthwhile human endeavor depends on the highest levels of concentration and mastery of basic tools. »
« Do not lose sight of the essential importance of craft; every worthwhile human endeavor depends on the highest levels of concentration and mastery of basic tools. »
-Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984)
-Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984)
« Even the most realistic photograph is not the same as the subject, but separated from it by the various influences of the photographic system. The photographer may choose to emphasize or minimize these "departures from reality," but [they] cannot eliminate them. »
« Even the most realistic photograph is not the same as the subject, but separated from it by the various influences of the photographic system. The photographer may choose to emphasize or minimize these "departures from reality," but [they] cannot eliminate them. »
-Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984)
-Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984)
« It is not surprising that we should develop a real affection for equipment that serves us well, but in spite of all the science and technology that underlies our medium, the sensitive photographer feels his images in a plastic sense. We must come to know intuitively what our lenses and other equipment will do for us, and how to use them. »
« It is not surprising that we should develop a real affection for equipment that serves us well, but in spite of all the science and technology that underlies our medium, the sensitive photographer feels his images in a plastic sense. We must come to know intuitively what our lenses and other equipment will do for us, and how to use them. »
-Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984)
-Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984)
« The longer I worked in Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada, the more convinced I became that the inclusive landscapes - striking as many undoubtedly are - may not interpret the direct excitement and beauty of the mountain world as incisively as sections, fragments, and close details, which are available in infinite number if the photographer will carefully observe. The danger, of course, lies in becoming repetitive, the photographer must be highly selective. »
« The longer I worked in Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada, the more convinced I became that the inclusive landscapes - striking as many undoubtedly are - may not interpret the direct excitement and beauty of the mountain world as incisively as sections, fragments, and close details, which are available in infinite number if the photographer will carefully observe. The danger, of course, lies in becoming repetitive, the photographer must be highly selective. »
- Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984)
- Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984)
« A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety. »
« A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety. »
- Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984)
- Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984)
« I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term — meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching — there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. »
« I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term — meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching — there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. »
- Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984)
- Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984)
« The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream. »
« The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream. »
- Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984)
- Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984)
« For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form. … You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And I'd say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions. »
« For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form. … You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And I'd say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions. »
- Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984) Interview with Paul Hill (March 1975)
- Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984) Interview with Paul Hill (March 1975)
« I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them. »
« I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them. »
- Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984) The Negative (1981)
- Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984) The Negative (1981)
« When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. »
« When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. »
- Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984)
- Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984)
« There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. »
« There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. »
- Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984)
- Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984)
« It is horrifying that we have to fight our own Government to save the environment. »
« It is horrifying that we have to fight our own Government to save the environment. »
- Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984)
- Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984)
« If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. »
« If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. »
- Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984)
- Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984)
« I would never apologize for photographing rocks. Rocks can be very beautiful. But, yes, people have asked why I don’t put people into my pictures of the natural scene. I respond, “There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.” That usually doesn’t go over at all. »
« I would never apologize for photographing rocks. Rocks can be very beautiful. But, yes, people have asked why I don’t put people into my pictures of the natural scene. I respond, “There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.” That usually doesn’t go over at all. »
- Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984) Playboy Interview: Ansel Adams
- Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984) Playboy Interview: Ansel Adams
« Yes, in the sense that the negative is like the composer’s score. Then, using that musical analogy, the print is the performance. »
« Yes, in the sense that the negative is like the composer’s score. Then, using that musical analogy, the print is the performance. »
- Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984)
- Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984)
« No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied — it speaks in silence to the very core of your being. »
« No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied — it speaks in silence to the very core of your being. »
- Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984)
- Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984)
« The only things in my life that compatibly exist with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit. »
« The only things in my life that compatibly exist with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit. »
- Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984)
- Ansel Adams (American Photographer 1902-1984)
Aristophanes
Aristophanes
« Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea. »
« Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea. »
- Aristophanes (Greek Poet of Comedy 446-386 BCE)
- Aristophanes (Greek Poet of Comedy 446-386 BCE)
« Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea. »
« Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea. »
- Aristophanes (Greek Poet of Comedy 446-386 BCE)
- Aristophanes (Greek Poet of Comedy 446-386 BCE)
« The love of wine is a good man's failing. »
« The love of wine is a good man's failing. »
- Aristophanes (Greek Poet of Comedy 446-386 BCE)
- Aristophanes (Greek Poet of Comedy 446-386 BCE)
Aristotle
Aristotle
« Practical life is not necessarily directed toward other people, as some think; and it is not the case that practical thoughts are only those which result from action for the sake of what ensues. On the contrary, much more practical are those mental activities and reflections which have their goal in themselves and take place for their own sake. »
« Practical life is not necessarily directed toward other people, as some think; and it is not the case that practical thoughts are only those which result from action for the sake of what ensues. On the contrary, much more practical are those mental activities and reflections which have their goal in themselves and take place for their own sake. »
- Aristotle (Greek Philosopher/Polymath 384-322 BCE)
- Aristotle (Greek Philosopher/Polymath 384-322 BCE)
« That which is desirable on its own account and for the sake of knowing it is more of the nature of wisdom than that which is desirable on account of its results. »
« That which is desirable on its own account and for the sake of knowing it is more of the nature of wisdom than that which is desirable on account of its results. »
- Aristotle (Greek Philosopher/Polymath 384-322 BCE)
- Aristotle (Greek Philosopher/Polymath 384-322 BCE)
« Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be »
« Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be »
- Aristotle (Greek Philosopher/Polymath 384-322 BCE)
- Aristotle (Greek Philosopher/Polymath 384-322 BCE)
« Any one can get angry — that is easy — or give or spend money; but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for every one, nor is it easy. »
« Any one can get angry — that is easy — or give or spend money; but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for every one, nor is it easy. »
- Aristotle (Greek Philosopher/Polymath 384-322 BCE)
- Aristotle (Greek Philosopher/Polymath 384-322 BCE)
« When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition. »
« When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition. »
- Aristotle (Greek Philosopher/Polymath 384-322 BCE)
- Aristotle (Greek Philosopher/Polymath 384-322 BCE)
« The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake. »
« The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake. »
- Aristotle (Greek Philosopher/Polymath 384-322 BCE)
- Aristotle (Greek Philosopher/Polymath 384-322 BCE)
« ...happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace. »
« ...happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace. »
- Aristotle (Greek Philosopher/Polymath 384-322 BCE)
- Aristotle (Greek Philosopher/Polymath 384-322 BCE)
« Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. »
« Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. »
- Aristotle (Greek Philosopher/Polymath 384-322 BCE)
- Aristotle (Greek Philosopher/Polymath 384-322 BCE)
« Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. »
« Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. »
- Aristotle (Greek Philosopher/Polymath 384-322 BCE)
- Aristotle (Greek Philosopher/Polymath 384-322 BCE)
« Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him. »
« Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him. »
- Aristotle (Greek Philosopher/Polymath 384-322 BCE)
- Aristotle (Greek Philosopher/Polymath 384-322 BCE)
« Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. »
« Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. »
- Aristotle (Greek Philosopher/Polymath 384-322 BCE)
- Aristotle (Greek Philosopher/Polymath 384-322 BCE)
« For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility. »
« For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility. »
- Aristotle (Greek Philosopher/Polymath 384-322 BCE)
- Aristotle (Greek Philosopher/Polymath 384-322 BCE)
« The roots of education ... are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. »
« The roots of education ... are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. »
- Aristotle (Greek Philosopher/Polymath 384-322 BCE)
- Aristotle (Greek Philosopher/Polymath 384-322 BCE)
« Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. »
« Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. »
- Aristotle (Greek Philosopher/Polymath 384-322 BCE)
- Aristotle (Greek Philosopher/Polymath 384-322 BCE)
B
B
Baron de Montesquieu
Baron de Montesquieu
« There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked. »
« There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked. »
- Baron de Montesquieu (French Political Thinker 1689-1755)
- Baron de Montesquieu (French Political Thinker 1689-1755)
« I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. »
« I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. »
- Baron de Montesquieu (French Political Thinker 1689-1755)
- Baron de Montesquieu (French Political Thinker 1689-1755)
« Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer. »
« Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer. »
- Baron de Montesquieu (French Political Thinker 1689-1755)
- Baron de Montesquieu (French Political Thinker 1689-1755)
« Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them? »
« Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them? »
- Baron de Montesquieu (French Political Thinker 1689-1755)
- Baron de Montesquieu (French Political Thinker 1689-1755)
« I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ. »
« I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ. »
- Baron de Montesquieu (French Political Thinker 1689-1755)
- Baron de Montesquieu (French Political Thinker 1689-1755)
Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin
« Magnificent desolation. »
« Magnificent desolation. »
- Buzz Aldrin (American Aviator/Astronaut 1930-present)
- Buzz Aldrin (American Aviator/Astronaut 1930-present)
« "But failure is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign that you are alive and growing." »
« "But failure is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign that you are alive and growing." »
- Buzz Aldrin (American Aviator/Astronaut 1930-present)
- Buzz Aldrin (American Aviator/Astronaut 1930-present)
« Don't waste the Earth — it is our Jewel! »
« Don't waste the Earth — it is our Jewel! »
- Buzz Aldrin (American Aviator/Astronaut 1930-present)
- Buzz Aldrin (American Aviator/Astronaut 1930-present)
« ...from space the arbitrary borders established on Earth cannot be seen. »
« ...from space the arbitrary borders established on Earth cannot be seen. »
- Buzz Aldrin (American Aviator/Astronaut 1930-present)
- Buzz Aldrin (American Aviator/Astronaut 1930-present)
C
C
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
« Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world. »
« Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly belong to all of us. We must not let it happen again. »
« History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly belong to all of us. We must not let it happen again. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« Exactly the same technology can be used for good and for evil. It is as if there were a God who said to us, 'I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It's up to you.' »
« Exactly the same technology can be used for good and for evil. It is as if there were a God who said to us, 'I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It's up to you.' »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« By exploring other worlds we safeguard this one. By itself, I think this fact more than justifies the money our species has spent in sending ships to other worlds. It is our fate to live during one of the most perilous and, at the same time, one of the most hopeful chapters in human history. »
« By exploring other worlds we safeguard this one. By itself, I think this fact more than justifies the money our species has spent in sending ships to other worlds. It is our fate to live during one of the most perilous and, at the same time, one of the most hopeful chapters in human history. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« Every thinking person fears nuclear war and every technological nation plans for it. Everyone knows it's madness, and every country has an excuse. »
« Every thinking person fears nuclear war and every technological nation plans for it. Everyone knows it's madness, and every country has an excuse. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours. »
« In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« Those worlds in space are as countless as all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the earth. »
« Those worlds in space are as countless as all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the earth. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« We are star stuff, which has taken its destiny into its own hands. »
« We are star stuff, which has taken its destiny into its own hands. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars. »
« The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. »
« The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« The nature of life on earth and the quest for life elsewhere are the two sides of the same question: the search for who we are. »
« The nature of life on earth and the quest for life elsewhere are the two sides of the same question: the search for who we are. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. »
« We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« We're made of star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. »
« We're made of star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« We wish to pursue the truth no matter where it leads — but to find the truth, we need imagination and skepticism both. »
« We wish to pursue the truth no matter where it leads — but to find the truth, we need imagination and skepticism both. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« For the first time, we have the power to decide the fate of our planet and ourselves. »
« For the first time, we have the power to decide the fate of our planet and ourselves. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it. »
« In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. »
« Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. »
« Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« War is murder writ large. »
« War is murder writ large. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. »
« National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky. »
« As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. »
« Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« Matter is composed chiefly of nothing. »
« Matter is composed chiefly of nothing. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. »
« Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. »
« Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. »
« The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. »
« The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie. »
« In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996) Dedication
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996) Dedication
« We are set irrevocably, I believe, on a path that will take us to the stars—unless in some monstrous capitulation to stupidity and greed, we destroy ourselves first. »
« We are set irrevocably, I believe, on a path that will take us to the stars—unless in some monstrous capitulation to stupidity and greed, we destroy ourselves first. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« ...we do not advance the human cause by refusing to consider ideas that make us frightened. »
« ...we do not advance the human cause by refusing to consider ideas that make us frightened. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more to the world than was generally believed by our ancestors. »
« Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more to the world than was generally believed by our ancestors. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« Every new set of discoveries raises a host of questions which we were never before wise enough even to ask. »
« Every new set of discoveries raises a host of questions which we were never before wise enough even to ask. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
« I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking. »
« I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking. »
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
- Carl Sagan (American Scientist 1934-1996)
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
« I remain just one thing, and one thing only — and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician. »
« I remain just one thing, and one thing only — and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician. »
- Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (British Comedian 1889–1977)
- Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (British Comedian 1889–1977)
« My faith is in the unknown, in all that we do not understand by reason; I believe that what is beyond our comprehension is a simple fact in other dimensions, and that in the realm of the unknown there is an infinite power for good. »
« My faith is in the unknown, in all that we do not understand by reason; I believe that what is beyond our comprehension is a simple fact in other dimensions, and that in the realm of the unknown there is an infinite power for good. »
- Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (British Comedian 1889–1977)
- Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (British Comedian 1889–1977)
« I am what I am: an individual, unique and different »
« I am what I am: an individual, unique and different »
- Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (British Comedian 1889–1977)
- Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (British Comedian 1889–1977)
« there's something just as inevitable as death. And that's life. »
« there's something just as inevitable as death. And that's life. »
- Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (British Comedian 1889–1977)
- Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (British Comedian 1889–1977)
« Look up to the sky
« Look up to the sky
You'll never find rainbows
You'll never find rainbows
If you’re looking down. »
If you’re looking down. »
- Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (British Comedian 1889–1977)
- Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (British Comedian 1889–1977)
« Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. »
« Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. »
- Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (British Comedian 1889–1977)
- Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (British Comedian 1889–1977)
« Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. »
« Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. »
- Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (British Comedian 1889–1977)
- Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (British Comedian 1889–1977)
« To those who can hear me, I say — do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed — the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people and so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
« To those who can hear me, I say — do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed — the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people and so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes — men who despise you — enslave you — who regiment your lives — tell you what to do — what to think or what to feel! »
Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes — men who despise you — enslave you — who regiment your lives — tell you what to do — what to think or what to feel! »
- Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (British Comedian 1889–1977)
- Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (British Comedian 1889–1977)
« Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.
« Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.
Soldiers! In the name of democracy, let us all unite! »
Soldiers! In the name of democracy, let us all unite! »
- Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (British Comedian 1889–1977)
- Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (British Comedian 1889–1977)
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David Hume
David Hume
« The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. »
« The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. »
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
« Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad; but the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. »
« Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad; but the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. »
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
« reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls[.] »
« reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls[.] »
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
« Nature may certainly produce whatever can arise from habit: Nay, habit is nothing but one of the principles of nature, and derives all its force from that origin. »
« Nature may certainly produce whatever can arise from habit: Nay, habit is nothing but one of the principles of nature, and derives all its force from that origin. »
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
« Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances. »
« Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances. »
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
« Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. »
« Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. »
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
« We speak not strictly and philosophically when we talk of the combat of passion and of reason. Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. »
« We speak not strictly and philosophically when we talk of the combat of passion and of reason. Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. »
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
« The sense of justice and injustice is not deriv'd from nature, but arises artificially... from education, and human conventions. »
« The sense of justice and injustice is not deriv'd from nature, but arises artificially... from education, and human conventions. »
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
« Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man. »
« Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man. »
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
« In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. »
« In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. »
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
« What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind? »
« What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind? »
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
« Though experience be our only guide in reasoning concerning matters of fact; it must be acknowledged, that this guide is not altogether infallible, but in some cases is apt to lead us into errors. »
« Though experience be our only guide in reasoning concerning matters of fact; it must be acknowledged, that this guide is not altogether infallible, but in some cases is apt to lead us into errors. »
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
« Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection; but addressing itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding. Happily, this pitch it seldom attains. But what a Tully or a Demosthenes could scarcely effect over a Roman or Athenian audience, every Capuchin, every itinerant or stationary teacher can perform over the generality of mankind, and in a higher degree, by touching such gross and vulgar passions. »
« Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection; but addressing itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding. Happily, this pitch it seldom attains. But what a Tully or a Demosthenes could scarcely effect over a Roman or Athenian audience, every Capuchin, every itinerant or stationary teacher can perform over the generality of mankind, and in a higher degree, by touching such gross and vulgar passions. »
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
« He is happy, whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent, who can suit his temper to any circumstances. »
« He is happy, whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent, who can suit his temper to any circumstances. »
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
« Where men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have there given reins to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense, which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities. »
« Where men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have there given reins to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense, which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities. »
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
« The more exquisite any good is, of which a small specimen is afforded us, the sharper is the evil, allied to it; and few exceptions are found to this uniform law of nature. The most sprightly wit borders on madness; the highest effusions of joy produce the deepest melancholy; the most ravishing pleasures are attended with the most cruel lassitude and disgust; the most flattering hopes make way for the severest disappointments. And, in general, no course of life has such safety (for happiness is not to be dreamed of) as the temperate and moderate, which maintains, as far as possible, a mediocrity, and a kind of insensibility, in every thing. As the good, the great, the sublime, the ravishing are found eminently in the genuine principles of theism; it may be expected, from the analogy of nature, that the base, the absurd, the mean, the terrifying will be equally discovered in religious fictions and chimeras. »
« The more exquisite any good is, of which a small specimen is afforded us, the sharper is the evil, allied to it; and few exceptions are found to this uniform law of nature. The most sprightly wit borders on madness; the highest effusions of joy produce the deepest melancholy; the most ravishing pleasures are attended with the most cruel lassitude and disgust; the most flattering hopes make way for the severest disappointments. And, in general, no course of life has such safety (for happiness is not to be dreamed of) as the temperate and moderate, which maintains, as far as possible, a mediocrity, and a kind of insensibility, in every thing. As the good, the great, the sublime, the ravishing are found eminently in the genuine principles of theism; it may be expected, from the analogy of nature, that the base, the absurd, the mean, the terrifying will be equally discovered in religious fictions and chimeras. »
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
« It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. »
« It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. »
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
« Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. »
« Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. »
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
« It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. Art is only the under-workman, and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces, which come from the hand of the master »
« It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. Art is only the under-workman, and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces, which come from the hand of the master »
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
« If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If she has been generous and liberal, know that she still expects industry and application on our part, and revenges herself in proportion to our negligent ingratitude. The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces, to its slothful owner, the most abundant crop of poisons. »
« If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If she has been generous and liberal, know that she still expects industry and application on our part, and revenges herself in proportion to our negligent ingratitude. The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces, to its slothful owner, the most abundant crop of poisons. »
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
« A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty. »
« A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty. »
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
« Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. One person may even perceive deformity, where another is sensible of beauty; and every individual ought to acquiesce in his own sentiment, without pretending to regulate those of others. »
« Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. One person may even perceive deformity, where another is sensible of beauty; and every individual ought to acquiesce in his own sentiment, without pretending to regulate those of others. »
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
« In a word, human life is more governed by fortune than by reason; is to be regarded more as a dull pastime than as a serious occupation; and is more influenced by particular humour, than by general principles. Shall we engage ourselves in it with passion and anxiety? It is not worthy of so much concern. Shall we be indifferent about what happens? We lose all the pleasure of the game by our phlegm and carelessness. While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone; and death, though perhaps they receive him differently, yet treats alike the fool and the philosopher. »
« In a word, human life is more governed by fortune than by reason; is to be regarded more as a dull pastime than as a serious occupation; and is more influenced by particular humour, than by general principles. Shall we engage ourselves in it with passion and anxiety? It is not worthy of so much concern. Shall we be indifferent about what happens? We lose all the pleasure of the game by our phlegm and carelessness. While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone; and death, though perhaps they receive him differently, yet treats alike the fool and the philosopher. »
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
« What peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call thought, that we must thus make it the model of the whole universe? Our partiality in our own favour does indeed present it on all occasions; but sound philosophy ought carefully to guard against so natural an illusion.
« What peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call thought, that we must thus make it the model of the whole universe? Our partiality in our own favour does indeed present it on all occasions; but sound philosophy ought carefully to guard against so natural an illusion.
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- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
« But were this world ever so perfect a production, it must still remain uncertain, whether all the excellencies of the work can justly be ascribed to the workman. If we survey a ship, what an exalted idea must we form of the ingenuity of the carpenter who framed so complicated, useful, and beautiful a machine? And what surprise must we feel, when we find him a stupid mechanic, who imitated others, and copied an art, which, through a long succession of ages, after multiplied trials, mistakes, corrections, deliberations, and controversies, had been gradually improving? Many worlds might have been botched and bungled, throughout an eternity, ere this system was struck out; much labour lost; many fruitless trials made; and a slow, but continued improvement carried on during infinite ages in the art of world-making. In such subjects, who can determine, where the truth; nay, who can conjecture where the probability, lies; amidst a great number of hypotheses which may be proposed, and a still greater number which may be imagined? »
« But were this world ever so perfect a production, it must still remain uncertain, whether all the excellencies of the work can justly be ascribed to the workman. If we survey a ship, what an exalted idea must we form of the ingenuity of the carpenter who framed so complicated, useful, and beautiful a machine? And what surprise must we feel, when we find him a stupid mechanic, who imitated others, and copied an art, which, through a long succession of ages, after multiplied trials, mistakes, corrections, deliberations, and controversies, had been gradually improving? Many worlds might have been botched and bungled, throughout an eternity, ere this system was struck out; much labour lost; many fruitless trials made; and a slow, but continued improvement carried on during infinite ages in the art of world-making. In such subjects, who can determine, where the truth; nay, who can conjecture where the probability, lies; amidst a great number of hypotheses which may be proposed, and a still greater number which may be imagined? »
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
« Did I show you the particular causes of each individual in a collection of twenty particles of matter, I should think it very unreasonable, should you afterwards ask me, what was the cause of the whole twenty. This is sufficiently explained in explaining the cause of the parts. »
« Did I show you the particular causes of each individual in a collection of twenty particles of matter, I should think it very unreasonable, should you afterwards ask me, what was the cause of the whole twenty. This is sufficiently explained in explaining the cause of the parts. »
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
« EPICURUS's old questions are yet unanswered. Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? then is he impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil? »
« EPICURUS's old questions are yet unanswered. Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? then is he impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil? »
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
- David Hume (Scottish Philosopher 1711-1776)
Demosthenes
Demosthenes
« It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. »
« It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. »
- Demosthenes (Greek Statesman/Orator 384-322 BCE)
- Demosthenes (Greek Statesman/Orator 384-322 BCE)
« No man can tell what the future may bring forth, and small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. »
« No man can tell what the future may bring forth, and small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. »
- Demosthenes (Greek Statesman/Orator 384-322 BCE)
- Demosthenes (Greek Statesman/Orator 384-322 BCE)
Diogenes of Sinope
Diogenes of Sinope
« When some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, he said, 'And I sentenced them to stay at home.' »
« When some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, he said, 'And I sentenced them to stay at home.' »
- Diogenes of Sinope (Greek Philosopher 412-323 BCE)
- Diogenes of Sinope (Greek Philosopher 412-323 BCE)
« He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, 'I am looking for a human.' »
« He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, 'I am looking for a human.' »
- Diogenes of Sinope (Greek Philosopher 412-323 BCE)
- Diogenes of Sinope (Greek Philosopher 412-323 BCE)
« To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, 'That for which other people pay.' »
« To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, 'That for which other people pay.' »
- Diogenes of Sinope (Greek Philosopher 412-323 BCE)
- Diogenes of Sinope (Greek Philosopher 412-323 BCE)
« Asked where he came from, he said, 'I am a citizen of the world.' »
« Asked where he came from, he said, 'I am a citizen of the world.' »
- Diogenes of Sinope (Greek Philosopher 412-323 BCE)
- Diogenes of Sinope (Greek Philosopher 412-323 BCE)
« When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, 'In ruling people.' »
« When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, 'In ruling people.' »
- Diogenes of Sinope (Greek Philosopher 412-323 BCE)
- Diogenes of Sinope (Greek Philosopher 412-323 BCE)
« It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours »
« It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours »
- Diogenes of Sinope (Greek Philosopher 412-323 BCE)
- Diogenes of Sinope (Greek Philosopher 412-323 BCE)
« When people laughed at him because he walked backward beneath the portico, he said to them: 'Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?' »
« When people laughed at him because he walked backward beneath the portico, he said to them: 'Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?' »
- Diogenes of Sinope (Greek Philosopher 412-323 BCE)
- Diogenes of Sinope (Greek Philosopher 412-323 BCE)
« Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them. »
« Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them. »
- Diogenes of Sinope (Greek Philosopher 412-323 BCE)
- Diogenes of Sinope (Greek Philosopher 412-323 BCE)
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero
« Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law. »
« Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law. »
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
« So long as there is life in the sick man, it is said that there is hope. »
« So long as there is life in the sick man, it is said that there is hope. »
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
« As for me, I cease not to advocate peace. It may be on unjust terms, but even so it is more expedient than the justest of civil wars. »
« As for me, I cease not to advocate peace. It may be on unjust terms, but even so it is more expedient than the justest of civil wars. »
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
« For laws are silent among arms. »
« For laws are silent among arms. »
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
« That which is most excellent, and is most to be desired by all happy, honest and healthy-minded men, is dignified leisure. »
« That which is most excellent, and is most to be desired by all happy, honest and healthy-minded men, is dignified leisure. »
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
« The distinguishing property of man is to search for and to follow after truth. »
« The distinguishing property of man is to search for and to follow after truth. »
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
« A happy life consists in tranquility of mind. »
« A happy life consists in tranquility of mind. »
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
« The beginnings of all things are small. »
« The beginnings of all things are small. »
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
« Constant practice devoted to one subject often prevails over both ability and skill. »
« Constant practice devoted to one subject often prevails over both ability and skill. »
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
« There is nothing so absurd that it has not been said by some philosopher. »
« There is nothing so absurd that it has not been said by some philosopher. »
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
« No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year. »
« No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year. »
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
« When the young die I am reminded of a strong flame extinguished by a torrent; but when old men die it is as if a fire had gone out without the use of force and of its own accord, after the fuel had been consumed; and, just as apples when they are green are with difficulty plucked from the tree, but when ripe and mellow fall of themselves, so, with the young, death comes as a result of force, while with the old it is the result of ripeness. To me, indeed, the thought of this "ripeness" for death is so pleasant, that the nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in his home port after a long voyage. »
« When the young die I am reminded of a strong flame extinguished by a torrent; but when old men die it is as if a fire had gone out without the use of force and of its own accord, after the fuel had been consumed; and, just as apples when they are green are with difficulty plucked from the tree, but when ripe and mellow fall of themselves, so, with the young, death comes as a result of force, while with the old it is the result of ripeness. To me, indeed, the thought of this "ripeness" for death is so pleasant, that the nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in his home port after a long voyage. »
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
« We are not born for ourselves alone; a part of us is claimed by our nation, another part by our friends. »
« We are not born for ourselves alone; a part of us is claimed by our nation, another part by our friends. »
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
« Let your desires be ruled by reason. »
« Let your desires be ruled by reason. »
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
« But still anger ought be far from us, for nothing is able to be done rightly nor judiciously with anger. »
« But still anger ought be far from us, for nothing is able to be done rightly nor judiciously with anger. »
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
« According to Cato the Elder, Scipio Africanus was wont to say that he was never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less alone than when alone. »
« According to Cato the Elder, Scipio Africanus was wont to say that he was never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less alone than when alone. »
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
« How long will men dare to call anything expedient that is not right? »
« How long will men dare to call anything expedient that is not right? »
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
« For friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. »
« For friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. »
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
« for a true friend is one who is, as it were, a second self. »
« for a true friend is one who is, as it were, a second self. »
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
« as all cultivated fields are not harvest-yielding [...] so all cultivated minds do not bear fruit. To continue the figure – as a field, though fertile, cannot yield a harvest without cultivation, no more can the mind without learning; thus each is feeble without the other. But philosophy is the cultivation of the soul. It draws out vices by the root, prepares the mind to receive seed, and commits to it, and, so to speak, sows in it what, when grown, may bear the most abundant fruit. »
« as all cultivated fields are not harvest-yielding [...] so all cultivated minds do not bear fruit. To continue the figure – as a field, though fertile, cannot yield a harvest without cultivation, no more can the mind without learning; thus each is feeble without the other. But philosophy is the cultivation of the soul. It draws out vices by the root, prepares the mind to receive seed, and commits to it, and, so to speak, sows in it what, when grown, may bear the most abundant fruit. »
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
« Philosophy is certainly the medicine of the soul. Its aid is to be sought not from without, as in diseases of the body; and we must labour with all our resources and with all our strength to cure ourselves. »
« Philosophy is certainly the medicine of the soul. Its aid is to be sought not from without, as in diseases of the body; and we must labour with all our resources and with all our strength to cure ourselves. »
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
« The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. »
« The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. »
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
« Whatever befalls in accordance with Nature should be accounted good. »
« Whatever befalls in accordance with Nature should be accounted good. »
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
« To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a previous age? »
« To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a previous age? »
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
« If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place. »
« If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place. »
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator & Politian 106-43 BCE)
Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King
« This is not a black holiday; it is a people's holiday »
« This is not a black holiday; it is a people's holiday »
- Coretta Scott King (American Civil Rights Activist & Wife of Martin Luther King Jr. 1927-2006)
- Coretta Scott King (American Civil Rights Activist & Wife of Martin Luther King Jr. 1927-2006)
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange
« One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it. »
« One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it. »
- Dorothea Lange (American photographer 1895-1965)
- Dorothea Lange (American photographer 1895-1965)
« The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. »
« The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. »
- Dorothea Lange (American photographer 1895-1965)
- Dorothea Lange (American photographer 1895-1965)
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Edwin H. Land
Edwin H. Land
« We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year. »
« We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year. »
- Edwin H. Land (American Scientist & Inventor of the Polaroid System )
- Edwin H. Land (American Scientist & Inventor of the Polaroid System )
« In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance. »
« In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance. »
- Edwin H. Land (American Scientist & Inventor of the Polaroid System )
- Edwin H. Land (American Scientist & Inventor of the Polaroid System )
« We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true. »
« We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true. »
- Edwin H. Land (American Scientist & Inventor of the Polaroid System )
- Edwin H. Land (American Scientist & Inventor of the Polaroid System )
« You cannot rely upon what you have been taught. All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do. »
« You cannot rely upon what you have been taught. All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do. »
- Edwin H. Land (American Scientist & Inventor of the Polaroid System )
- Edwin H. Land (American Scientist & Inventor of the Polaroid System )
« An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They made it permissible to fail repeatedly until in the end they got the results they wanted. In politics or government, if you made a hypothesis and it didn't work out, you had your head cut off. »
« An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They made it permissible to fail repeatedly until in the end they got the results they wanted. In politics or government, if you made a hypothesis and it didn't work out, you had your head cut off. »
- Edwin H. Land (American Scientist & Inventor of the Polaroid System )
- Edwin H. Land (American Scientist & Inventor of the Polaroid System )
« My whole life has been spent trying to teach people that intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out in people resources they didn't know they had. »
« My whole life has been spent trying to teach people that intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out in people resources they didn't know they had. »
- Edwin H. Land (American Scientist & Inventor of the Polaroid System )
- Edwin H. Land (American Scientist & Inventor of the Polaroid System )
« Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention. »
« Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention. »
- Edwin H. Land (American Scientist & Inventor of the Polaroid System )
- Edwin H. Land (American Scientist & Inventor of the Polaroid System )
« There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess. »
« There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess. »
- Edwin H. Land (American Scientist & Inventor of the Polaroid System )
- Edwin H. Land (American Scientist & Inventor of the Polaroid System )
« The reason for the painfulness of all philosophy is that in the past, in its necessary ignorance of the unbelievable domains of partnership that have evolved in the relationship between ourselves and the world around us, it dealt with what indeed have been a tragic separation and isolation. Of what meaning is the world without mind? The question cannot exist. »
« The reason for the painfulness of all philosophy is that in the past, in its necessary ignorance of the unbelievable domains of partnership that have evolved in the relationship between ourselves and the world around us, it dealt with what indeed have been a tragic separation and isolation. Of what meaning is the world without mind? The question cannot exist. »
- Edwin H. Land (American Scientist & Inventor of the Polaroid System )
- Edwin H. Land (American Scientist & Inventor of the Polaroid System )
« My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible. »
« My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible. »
- Edwin H. Land (American Scientist & Inventor of the Polaroid System )
- Edwin H. Land (American Scientist & Inventor of the Polaroid System )
« There's a tremendous popular fallacy which holds that significant research can be carried out by trying things. Actually it is easy to show that in general no significant problem can be solved empirically, except for accidents so rare as to be statistically unimportant. One of my jests is to say that we work empirically — we use bull's eye empiricism. We try everything, but we try the right thing first! »
« There's a tremendous popular fallacy which holds that significant research can be carried out by trying things. Actually it is easy to show that in general no significant problem can be solved empirically, except for accidents so rare as to be statistically unimportant. One of my jests is to say that we work empirically — we use bull's eye empiricism. We try everything, but we try the right thing first! »
- Edwin H. Land (American Scientist & Inventor of the Polaroid System )
- Edwin H. Land (American Scientist & Inventor of the Polaroid System )
« You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components. »
« You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components. »
- Edwin H. Land (American Scientist & Inventor of the Polaroid System )
- Edwin H. Land (American Scientist & Inventor of the Polaroid System )
« If you sense a deep human need, then you go back to all the basic science. If there is some missing, then you try to do more basic science and applied science until you get it. So you make the system to fulfill that need, rather than starting the other way around, where you have something and wonder what to do with it. »
« If you sense a deep human need, then you go back to all the basic science. If there is some missing, then you try to do more basic science and applied science until you get it. So you make the system to fulfill that need, rather than starting the other way around, where you have something and wonder what to do with it. »
- Edwin H. Land (American Scientist & Inventor of the Polaroid System )
- Edwin H. Land (American Scientist & Inventor of the Polaroid System )
« In this age, in this country, there is an opportunity for the development of man's intellectual, cultural, and spiritual potentialities that has never existed before in the history of our species. »
« In this age, in this country, there is an opportunity for the development of man's intellectual, cultural, and spiritual potentialities that has never existed before in the history of our species. »
- Edwin H. Land (American Scientist & Inventor of the Polaroid System )
- Edwin H. Land (American Scientist & Inventor of the Polaroid System )
Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel
« Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. »
« Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. »
- Elie Wiesel (Jewish Writer & Holocaust Survivor 1928–2016)
- Elie Wiesel (Jewish Writer & Holocaust Survivor 1928–2016)
« What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander. »
« What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander. »
- Elie Wiesel (Jewish Writer & Holocaust Survivor 1928–2016)
- Elie Wiesel (Jewish Writer & Holocaust Survivor 1928–2016)
« Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil. »
« Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil. »
- Elie Wiesel (Jewish Writer & Holocaust Survivor 1928–2016)
- Elie Wiesel (Jewish Writer & Holocaust Survivor 1928–2016)
« Listen to the silent screams »
« Listen to the silent screams »
- Elie Wiesel (Jewish Writer & Holocaust Survivor 1928–2016)
- Elie Wiesel (Jewish Writer & Holocaust Survivor 1928–2016)
« We tried. It was not easy. At first, because of the language; language failed us. We would have to invent a new vocabulary, for our own words were inadequate, anemic. And then too, the people around us refused to listen; and even those who listened refused to believe; and even those who believed could not comprehend. Of course they could not. Nobody could. The experience of the camps defies comprehension. »
« We tried. It was not easy. At first, because of the language; language failed us. We would have to invent a new vocabulary, for our own words were inadequate, anemic. And then too, the people around us refused to listen; and even those who listened refused to believe; and even those who believed could not comprehend. Of course they could not. Nobody could. The experience of the camps defies comprehension. »
- Elie Wiesel (Jewish Writer & Holocaust Survivor 1928–2016)
- Elie Wiesel (Jewish Writer & Holocaust Survivor 1928–2016)
« None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims. »
« None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims. »
- Elie Wiesel (Jewish Writer & Holocaust Survivor 1928–2016)
- Elie Wiesel (Jewish Writer & Holocaust Survivor 1928–2016)
« For us, forgetting was never an option. Remembering is a noble and necessary act. »
« For us, forgetting was never an option. Remembering is a noble and necessary act. »
- Elie Wiesel (Jewish Writer & Holocaust Survivor 1928–2016)
- Elie Wiesel (Jewish Writer & Holocaust Survivor 1928–2016)
« As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame. »
« As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame. »
- Elie Wiesel (Jewish Writer & Holocaust Survivor 1928–2016)
- Elie Wiesel (Jewish Writer & Holocaust Survivor 1928–2016)
« Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.
« Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.
Never shall I forget that smoke.
Never shall I forget that smoke.
Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky.
Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky.
Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever.
Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever.
Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live.
Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live.
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself.
Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself.
Never. »
Never. »
- Elie Wiesel (Jewish Writer & Holocaust Survivor 1928–2016)
- Elie Wiesel (Jewish Writer & Holocaust Survivor 1928–2016)
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
« No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. »
« No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. »
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
« I'm no teacher. Never wanted to teach and don't believe in teaching an art. Science yes, business of course...but an art cannot be taught. You can only inculcate it, you can be an exemplar, you can create an atmosphere in which it can grow. »
« I'm no teacher. Never wanted to teach and don't believe in teaching an art. Science yes, business of course...but an art cannot be taught. You can only inculcate it, you can be an exemplar, you can create an atmosphere in which it can grow. »
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
« A free America, democratic in the sense that our forefathers intended it to be, means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call 'democracy' is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it. »
« A free America, democratic in the sense that our forefathers intended it to be, means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call 'democracy' is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it. »
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
« Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. »
« Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. »
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
« I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city. »
« I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city. »
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
« Clear out 800,000 people and preserve it as a museum piece. »
« Clear out 800,000 people and preserve it as a museum piece. »
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959) On Boston, The New York Times (27 November 1955)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959) On Boston, The New York Times (27 November 1955)
« New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it. » - Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959) On New York and Pittsburgh, The New York Times (27 November 1955)
« New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it. » - Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959) On New York and Pittsburgh, The New York Times (27 November 1955)
« I believe in God, only I spell it "Nature". »
« I believe in God, only I spell it "Nature". »
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959) As quoted in Quote magazine (14 August 1966)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959) As quoted in Quote magazine (14 August 1966)
« Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see. »
« Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see. »
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
« Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived. »
« Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived. »
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
« Here I am, Philip, am I indoors or am I out? Do I take my hat off or keep it on? »
« Here I am, Philip, am I indoors or am I out? Do I take my hat off or keep it on? »
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959) On Philip Johnson's glass house, as quoted in Architectural Digest (November 1985)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959) On Philip Johnson's glass house, as quoted in Architectural Digest (November 1985)
« Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. »
« Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. »
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
« Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change. »
« Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change. »
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
« Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. »
« Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. »
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
« Philosophy is to the mind of the architect as eyesight is to his steps. The term "genius" when applied to him simply means a man who understands what others only know about. »
« Philosophy is to the mind of the architect as eyesight is to his steps. The term "genius" when applied to him simply means a man who understands what others only know about. »
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
« So the poet in the engineer and the engineer in the poet and both in the architect may be seen here working together, lifelong. »
« So the poet in the engineer and the engineer in the poet and both in the architect may be seen here working together, lifelong. »
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
« Success was misunderstood as essential to progress. Really success was worse than failure. »
« Success was misunderstood as essential to progress. Really success was worse than failure. »
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
« Might not the spirit of creative art, desperately needed by man, lie in the proper use of the radical new technologies of our times, and so arise? »
« Might not the spirit of creative art, desperately needed by man, lie in the proper use of the radical new technologies of our times, and so arise? »
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
« This drift toward quantity instead of quality is largely distortion. Conformity is always too convenient? Quality means individuality, is therefore difficult. But unless we go deeper now, quantity at expense to quality will be our national tragedy—the rise of mediocrity into high places. »
« This drift toward quantity instead of quality is largely distortion. Conformity is always too convenient? Quality means individuality, is therefore difficult. But unless we go deeper now, quantity at expense to quality will be our national tragedy—the rise of mediocrity into high places. »
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
« For this, if for no other reason, degeneration of creative ability in America has had ample support, and what nobility our society might still have is in danger of being submerged in overwhelming tides of rising conformity. »
« For this, if for no other reason, degeneration of creative ability in America has had ample support, and what nobility our society might still have is in danger of being submerged in overwhelming tides of rising conformity. »
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
« No jealousy is comparable to professional jealousy. »
« No jealousy is comparable to professional jealousy. »
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
« Nature's own inexhaustible fertility is manifest exuberance, and never less than the elemental poetry of all her structure. »
« Nature's own inexhaustible fertility is manifest exuberance, and never less than the elemental poetry of all her structure. »
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
« Architecture is intrinsic to Time, Place and Man. »
« Architecture is intrinsic to Time, Place and Man. »
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
« Science is inventive but creative never. »
« Science is inventive but creative never. »
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959)
« The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. »
« The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. »
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959) from “Night is but a Shadow Cast by the Sun”
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect 1867-1959) from “Night is but a Shadow Cast by the Sun”
Friedrich Schlegel
Friedrich Schlegel
« Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher organ of the soul, where the life spirits of entire external mankind meet and in which inner mankind first acts. »
« Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher organ of the soul, where the life spirits of entire external mankind meet and in which inner mankind first acts. »
- Friedrich Schlegel (German Poet 1772-1829)
- Friedrich Schlegel (German Poet 1772-1829)
« Only a man who is at one with the world can be at one with himself. »
« Only a man who is at one with the world can be at one with himself. »
- Friedrich Schlegel (German Poet 1772-1829)
- Friedrich Schlegel (German Poet 1772-1829)
« Do not waste your faith and love on the political world, but, in the divine world of science and art, offer up your inmost being in a fiery stream of eternal creation. »
« Do not waste your faith and love on the political world, but, in the divine world of science and art, offer up your inmost being in a fiery stream of eternal creation. »
- Friedrich Schlegel (German Poet 1772-1829)
- Friedrich Schlegel (German Poet 1772-1829)
« The life of the artist should be distinguished from that of all other people, even in external habits. They are Brahmins, a higher caste, not ennobled by birth, however, but through deliberate self-initiation. »
« The life of the artist should be distinguished from that of all other people, even in external habits. They are Brahmins, a higher caste, not ennobled by birth, however, but through deliberate self-initiation. »
- Friedrich Schlegel (German Poet 1772-1829)
- Friedrich Schlegel (German Poet 1772-1829)
« What am I proud of, and what can I be proud of as an artist? Of the decision that separated and isolated me forever from everything ordinary. »
« What am I proud of, and what can I be proud of as an artist? Of the decision that separated and isolated me forever from everything ordinary. »
- Friedrich Schlegel (German Poet 1772-1829)
- Friedrich Schlegel (German Poet 1772-1829)
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George Biddel Airy
George Biddel Airy
« In the hands of Science and indomitable energy, results the most gigantic and absorbing may be wrought out by skilful combinations of acknowledged data and the simplest means. »
« In the hands of Science and indomitable energy, results the most gigantic and absorbing may be wrought out by skilful combinations of acknowledged data and the simplest means. »
- George Biddel Airy (English Mathematician & Astronomer 1801-1892)
- George Biddel Airy (English Mathematician & Astronomer 1801-1892)
« Complete knowledge of every theoretical and instrumental detail can only be obtained by those who will devote... a large portion of their lives; but sound knowledge of the principles... can be obtained by the reasonable efforts of persons possessing common opportunities for general knowledge. »
« Complete knowledge of every theoretical and instrumental detail can only be obtained by those who will devote... a large portion of their lives; but sound knowledge of the principles... can be obtained by the reasonable efforts of persons possessing common opportunities for general knowledge. »
- George Biddel Airy (English Mathematician & Astronomer 1801-1892)
- George Biddel Airy (English Mathematician & Astronomer 1801-1892)
« It is not simply that a clear understanding is acquired of the movements of the great bodies which we regard as the system of the world, but it is that we are introduced to a perception of laws governing the motion of all matter, from the finest particle of dust to the largest planet or sun, with a degree of uniformity and constancy, which otherwise we could hardly have conceived. Astronomy is pre-eminently the science of order. »
« It is not simply that a clear understanding is acquired of the movements of the great bodies which we regard as the system of the world, but it is that we are introduced to a perception of laws governing the motion of all matter, from the finest particle of dust to the largest planet or sun, with a degree of uniformity and constancy, which otherwise we could hardly have conceived. Astronomy is pre-eminently the science of order. »
- George Biddel Airy (English Mathematician & Astronomer 1801-1892)
- George Biddel Airy (English Mathematician & Astronomer 1801-1892)
« In the hands of Science and indomitable energy, results the most gigantic and absorbing may be wrought out by skilful combinations of acknowledged data and the simplest means. »
« In the hands of Science and indomitable energy, results the most gigantic and absorbing may be wrought out by skilful combinations of acknowledged data and the simplest means. »
- George Biddel Airy (English Mathematician & Astronomer 1801-1892)
- George Biddel Airy (English Mathematician & Astronomer 1801-1892)
George Smith Patton
George Smith Patton
« There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, We are, and we will be. »
« There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, We are, and we will be. »
- George Smith Patton (Commander of U.S. Third & Seventh Army during WWII 1885 – 1945)
- George Smith Patton (Commander of U.S. Third & Seventh Army during WWII 1885 – 1945)
« Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man. »
« Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man. »
- George Smith Patton (Commander of U.S. Third & Seventh Army during WWII 1885 – 1945)
- George Smith Patton (Commander of U.S. Third & Seventh Army during WWII 1885 – 1945)
« You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. »
« You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. »
- George Smith Patton (Commander of U.S. Third & Seventh Army during WWII 1885 – 1945)
- George Smith Patton (Commander of U.S. Third & Seventh Army during WWII 1885 – 1945)
« A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later. »
« A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later. »
- George Smith Patton (Commander of U.S. Third & Seventh Army during WWII 1885 – 1945)
- George Smith Patton (Commander of U.S. Third & Seventh Army during WWII 1885 – 1945)
« Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. »
« Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. »
- George Smith Patton (Commander of U.S. Third & Seventh Army during WWII 1885 – 1945)
- George Smith Patton (Commander of U.S. Third & Seventh Army during WWII 1885 – 1945)
« It is a popular idea that a man is a hero just because he was killed in action. Rather, I think, a man is frequently a fool when he gets killed. »
« It is a popular idea that a man is a hero just because he was killed in action. Rather, I think, a man is frequently a fool when he gets killed. »
- George Smith Patton (Commander of U.S. Third & Seventh Army during WWII 1885 – 1945)
- George Smith Patton (Commander of U.S. Third & Seventh Army during WWII 1885 – 1945)
« There are four hundred neatly marked graves somewhere in Sicily. All because one man went to sleep on the job. But they are German graves, because we caught the bastard asleep before they did. »
« There are four hundred neatly marked graves somewhere in Sicily. All because one man went to sleep on the job. But they are German graves, because we caught the bastard asleep before they did. »
- George Smith Patton (Commander of U.S. Third & Seventh Army during WWII 1885 – 1945)
- George Smith Patton (Commander of U.S. Third & Seventh Army during WWII 1885 – 1945)
« The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared. »
« The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared. »
- George Smith Patton (Commander of U.S. Third & Seventh Army during WWII 1885 – 1945)
- George Smith Patton (Commander of U.S. Third & Seventh Army during WWII 1885 – 1945)
« Some goddamn fool once said that flanks have got to be secure. Since then sonofabitches all over the globe have been guarding their flanks. I don't agree with that. My flanks are something for the enemy to worry about, not me. Before he finds out where my flanks are, I'll be cutting the bastard's throat. »
« Some goddamn fool once said that flanks have got to be secure. Since then sonofabitches all over the globe have been guarding their flanks. I don't agree with that. My flanks are something for the enemy to worry about, not me. Before he finds out where my flanks are, I'll be cutting the bastard's throat. »
- George Smith Patton (Commander of U.S. Third & Seventh Army during WWII 1885 – 1945)
- George Smith Patton (Commander of U.S. Third & Seventh Army during WWII 1885 – 1945)
« A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood. »
« A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood. »
- George Smith Patton (Commander of U.S. Third & Seventh Army during WWII 1885 – 1945)
- George Smith Patton (Commander of U.S. Third & Seventh Army during WWII 1885 – 1945)
« For in war just as in loving
« For in war just as in loving
You must keep on shoving
You must keep on shoving
Or you'll never get your reward.
Or you'll never get your reward.
For if you are dilatory
For if you are dilatory
In the search for lust or glory
In the search for lust or glory
You are up shitcreek and that's the truth, Oh, Lord.
You are up shitcreek and that's the truth, Oh, Lord.
So let us do real fighting,
So let us do real fighting,
Boring in and gouging, biting.
Boring in and gouging, biting.
Let's take a chance now that we have the ball.
Let's take a chance now that we have the ball.
Let's forget those fine firm bases
Let's forget those fine firm bases
In the dreary shell-raked spaces,
In the dreary shell-raked spaces,
Let's shoot the works and win! Yes win it all. »
Let's shoot the works and win! Yes win it all. »
- George Smith Patton (Commander of U.S. Third & Seventh Army during WWII 1885 – 1945)
- George Smith Patton (Commander of U.S. Third & Seventh Army during WWII 1885 – 1945)
« Through the travail of the ages,
« Through the travail of the ages,
Midst the pomp and toil of war,
Midst the pomp and toil of war,
Have I fought and strove and perished
Have I fought and strove and perished
Countless times upon this star. »
Countless times upon this star. »
- George Smith Patton (Commander of U.S. Third & Seventh Army during WWII 1885 – 1945)
- George Smith Patton (Commander of U.S. Third & Seventh Army during WWII 1885 – 1945)
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Henri Cartier Bresson
Henri Cartier Bresson
« Whether you are passing through or staying put, in order to give expression to a country or a situation you must have established, somewhere, close working relations, be supported by a human community; living takes time, roots form slowly... »
« Whether you are passing through or staying put, in order to give expression to a country or a situation you must have established, somewhere, close working relations, be supported by a human community; living takes time, roots form slowly... »
- Henri Cartier Bresson (French Humanist Photographer 1908-2004)
- Henri Cartier Bresson (French Humanist Photographer 1908-2004)
« The picture-story involves a joint operation of the brain, the eye and the heart. The objective of this joint operation is to depict the content of some event which is in the process of unfolding, and to communicate impressions. Sometimes a single event can be so rich in itself and its facets that it is necessary to move all around it in your search for the solution to the problems it poses — for the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving. Sometimes you light upon the picture in seconds; it might also require hours or days. But there is no standard plan, no pattern from which to work. »
« The picture-story involves a joint operation of the brain, the eye and the heart. The objective of this joint operation is to depict the content of some event which is in the process of unfolding, and to communicate impressions. Sometimes a single event can be so rich in itself and its facets that it is necessary to move all around it in your search for the solution to the problems it poses — for the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving. Sometimes you light upon the picture in seconds; it might also require hours or days. But there is no standard plan, no pattern from which to work. »
- Henri Cartier Bresson (French Humanist Photographer 1908-2004)
- Henri Cartier Bresson (French Humanist Photographer 1908-2004)
« I believe creative work needs communication. So it’s extremely encouraging to be with a group of people who form a community and to know that you’re not isolated, although as individuals we must always work in an inner silence. »
« I believe creative work needs communication. So it’s extremely encouraging to be with a group of people who form a community and to know that you’re not isolated, although as individuals we must always work in an inner silence. »
- Henri Cartier Bresson (French Humanist Photographer 1908-2004)
- Henri Cartier Bresson (French Humanist Photographer 1908-2004)
« I think cynicism is the worst thing because it kills everything. There’s no more honesty, no more poetry, no more freshness. Cynicism is the worst thing — a kind of smart person who’s got all the answers. This is death. It kills creation. There’s no love, no tenderness, nothing at all left. There’s no hatred even, nothing. Equally dangerous is the detached attitude that says, “Everything is fun!” »
« I think cynicism is the worst thing because it kills everything. There’s no more honesty, no more poetry, no more freshness. Cynicism is the worst thing — a kind of smart person who’s got all the answers. This is death. It kills creation. There’s no love, no tenderness, nothing at all left. There’s no hatred even, nothing. Equally dangerous is the detached attitude that says, “Everything is fun!” »
- Henri Cartier Bresson (French Humanist Photographer 1908-2004)
- Henri Cartier Bresson (French Humanist Photographer 1908-2004)
« Anybody can take photographs. I have seen in the Herald Tribune some taken by a monkey that managed, with a Polaroid camera, as well as some camera owners. It is precisely because our profession is open to everyone that it remains, in spite of its fascinating ease, extremely difficult. »
« Anybody can take photographs. I have seen in the Herald Tribune some taken by a monkey that managed, with a Polaroid camera, as well as some camera owners. It is precisely because our profession is open to everyone that it remains, in spite of its fascinating ease, extremely difficult. »
- Henri Cartier Bresson (French Humanist Photographer 1908-2004)
- Henri Cartier Bresson (French Humanist Photographer 1908-2004)
« If I am asked about the photographer’s role in our times, the power of the image and so on, I do not want to launch into explanations. I only know that people who know how to look are as rare as those who know how to listen. »
« If I am asked about the photographer’s role in our times, the power of the image and so on, I do not want to launch into explanations. I only know that people who know how to look are as rare as those who know how to listen. »
- Henri Cartier Bresson (French Humanist Photographer 1908-2004)
- Henri Cartier Bresson (French Humanist Photographer 1908-2004)
« This book [Zen in the Art of Archery], by Herrigel, which I discovered a few years ago, seems to me fundamental to our profession as photographers. Matisse wrote similarly about drawing: set a discipline, make rigor a rule, forget oneself completely. And in photography the attitude must be the same: detach oneself, do not try to prove anything at all. My sense of freedom is the same: a frame that allows any variation. This is the basis of Zen Buddhism, the evidence: that you go in with great force and then you succeed in forgetting yourself. »
« This book [Zen in the Art of Archery], by Herrigel, which I discovered a few years ago, seems to me fundamental to our profession as photographers. Matisse wrote similarly about drawing: set a discipline, make rigor a rule, forget oneself completely. And in photography the attitude must be the same: detach oneself, do not try to prove anything at all. My sense of freedom is the same: a frame that allows any variation. This is the basis of Zen Buddhism, the evidence: that you go in with great force and then you succeed in forgetting yourself. »
- Henri Cartier Bresson (French Humanist Photographer 1908-2004)
- Henri Cartier Bresson (French Humanist Photographer 1908-2004)
« Photography is solitary work. There is emulation. It is interesting to know what other people do. Even so, writers do not read everything that is published. A painter does not look at everything. You have to choose. It’s reality, it’s life that is important. We shouldn’t be sniffing around each other all the time, looking... »
« Photography is solitary work. There is emulation. It is interesting to know what other people do. Even so, writers do not read everything that is published. A painter does not look at everything. You have to choose. It’s reality, it’s life that is important. We shouldn’t be sniffing around each other all the time, looking... »
- Henri Cartier Bresson (French Humanist Photographer 1908-2004)
- Henri Cartier Bresson (French Humanist Photographer 1908-2004)
« When you use a camera, your visual concentration is intense, as it is when you draw. But if you overshoot, your contact sheet is likely to become a jumble of peelings. You need a lot of sand to discover a nugget. Shooting is a play between pickpocketing and tightrope walking; an endless play, fraught with huge tension. »
« When you use a camera, your visual concentration is intense, as it is when you draw. But if you overshoot, your contact sheet is likely to become a jumble of peelings. You need a lot of sand to discover a nugget. Shooting is a play between pickpocketing and tightrope walking; an endless play, fraught with huge tension. »
- Henri Cartier Bresson (French Humanist Photographer 1908-2004)
- Henri Cartier Bresson (French Humanist Photographer 1908-2004)
« Photography has fulfilled my adventurous side: it is a real trade. I behaved like a thief in every country where I went, in China, in Africa, in America… all things considered, our trade is situated somewhere between pickpocket and tightrope walker… yes, we steal from people, we take something that belongs to them: their image, their culture. »
« Photography has fulfilled my adventurous side: it is a real trade. I behaved like a thief in every country where I went, in China, in Africa, in America… all things considered, our trade is situated somewhere between pickpocket and tightrope walker… yes, we steal from people, we take something that belongs to them: their image, their culture. »
- Henri Cartier Bresson (French Humanist Photographer 1908-2004)
- Henri Cartier Bresson (French Humanist Photographer 1908-2004)
« We had a certain idea of our work, a respect for others, and above all, [we were determined] not to be paparazzi. For the photographer, curiosity is essential, the terrible counterpart is indiscretion, which is a lack of restraint. »
« We had a certain idea of our work, a respect for others, and above all, [we were determined] not to be paparazzi. For the photographer, curiosity is essential, the terrible counterpart is indiscretion, which is a lack of restraint. »
- Henri Cartier Bresson (French Humanist Photographer 1908-2004)
- Henri Cartier Bresson (French Humanist Photographer 1908-2004)
Hesiod
Hesiod
« There's no place like home. »
« There's no place like home. »
- Hesiod (Greek Poet ~700 BCE)
- Hesiod (Greek Poet ~700 BCE)
« Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor. »
« Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor. »
- Hesiod (Greek Poet ~700 BCE)
- Hesiod (Greek Poet ~700 BCE)
« He is the best of all who thinks for himself in all things. He, too, is good who takes advice from a wiser (person). But he who neither thinks for himself, nor lays to heart another's wisdom, this is a useless man. »
« He is the best of all who thinks for himself in all things. He, too, is good who takes advice from a wiser (person). But he who neither thinks for himself, nor lays to heart another's wisdom, this is a useless man. »
- Hesiod (Greek Poet ~700 BCE)
- Hesiod (Greek Poet ~700 BCE)
« Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong. »
« Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong. »
- Hesiod (Greek Poet ~700 BCE)
- Hesiod (Greek Poet ~700 BCE)
« Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity. »
« Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity. »
- Hesiod (Greek Poet ~700 BCE)
- Hesiod (Greek Poet ~700 BCE)
« The best treasure a man can have is a sparing tongue. »
« The best treasure a man can have is a sparing tongue. »
- Hesiod (Greek Poet ~700 BCE)
- Hesiod (Greek Poet ~700 BCE)
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Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
« If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants. »
« If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants. »
- Isaac Newton (English Polymath 1642-1726)
- Isaac Newton (English Polymath 1642-1726)
« To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty, & leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing. »
« To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty, & leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing. »
- Isaac Newton (English Polymath 1642-1726)
- Isaac Newton (English Polymath 1642-1726)
« I have studied these things — you have not. »
« I have studied these things — you have not. »
- Isaac Newton (English Polymath 1642-1726)
- Isaac Newton (English Polymath 1642-1726)
« I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. »
« I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. »
- Isaac Newton (English Polymath 1642-1726)
- Isaac Newton (English Polymath 1642-1726)
« whatever light be, I would suppose it consists of successive rays differing from one another in contingent circumstances, as bigness, force, or vigour, like as the sands on the shore... »
« whatever light be, I would suppose it consists of successive rays differing from one another in contingent circumstances, as bigness, force, or vigour, like as the sands on the shore... »
- Isaac Newton (English Polymath 1642-1726)
- Isaac Newton (English Polymath 1642-1726)
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
« None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. »
« None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. »
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
« A thinking man's greatest happiness is to have fathomed what can be fathomed and to revere in silence what cannot be fathomed. »
« A thinking man's greatest happiness is to have fathomed what can be fathomed and to revere in silence what cannot be fathomed. »
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832) Maxim 1207
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832) Maxim 1207
« Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. »
« Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. »
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
« Nothing should be treasured more highly than the value of the day. »
« Nothing should be treasured more highly than the value of the day. »
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
« One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. »
« One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. »
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
« Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up. »
« Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up. »
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
« Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others. »
« Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others. »
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
« A world without love would be no world. »
« A world without love would be no world. »
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
« Everything is simpler than one can imagine, at the same time more involved than can be comprehended. »
« Everything is simpler than one can imagine, at the same time more involved than can be comprehended. »
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
« Hypotheses are scaffoldings erected in front of a building and then dismantled when the building is finished. They are indispensable for the workman; but you mustn't mistake the scaffolding for the building. »
« Hypotheses are scaffoldings erected in front of a building and then dismantled when the building is finished. They are indispensable for the workman; but you mustn't mistake the scaffolding for the building. »
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
« Scientific knowledge helps us mainly because it makes the wonder to which we are called by nature rather more intelligible. »
« Scientific knowledge helps us mainly because it makes the wonder to which we are called by nature rather more intelligible. »
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
« Nothing is more frightful than to see ignorance in action. »
« Nothing is more frightful than to see ignorance in action. »
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
« Only when we know little do we know anything. Doubt grows with knowledge. »
« Only when we know little do we know anything. Doubt grows with knowledge. »
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
« You ask which form of government is the best? Whichever teaches us to govern ourselves. »
« You ask which form of government is the best? Whichever teaches us to govern ourselves. »
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
« He who does not speak foreign languages knows nothing about his own. »
« He who does not speak foreign languages knows nothing about his own. »
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
« The world is a bell that is cracked: it clatters, but does not ring out clearly. »
« The world is a bell that is cracked: it clatters, but does not ring out clearly. »
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
« There's nothing clever that hasn't been thought of before — you've just got to try to think it all over again. »
« There's nothing clever that hasn't been thought of before — you've just got to try to think it all over again. »
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
« Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. »
« Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. »
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
« Nothing should be treasured more highly than the value of the day. »
« Nothing should be treasured more highly than the value of the day. »
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Author & Philosopher 1749-1832)
John Dryden
John Dryden
« What passion cannot Music raise and quell? »
« What passion cannot Music raise and quell? »
- John Dryden (English Poet 1668-1689)
- John Dryden (English Poet 1668-1689)
« All human things are subject to decay,
« All human things are subject to decay,
And, when fate summons, monarchs must obey. »
And, when fate summons, monarchs must obey. »
- John Dryden (English Poet 1668-1689)
- John Dryden (English Poet 1668-1689)
« Of all the tyrannies on human kind
« Of all the tyrannies on human kind
The worst is that which persecutes the mind. »
The worst is that which persecutes the mind. »
- John Dryden (English Poet 1668-1689)
- John Dryden (English Poet 1668-1689)
« She feared no danger, for she knew no sin. »
« She feared no danger, for she knew no sin. »
- John Dryden (English Poet 1668-1689)
- John Dryden (English Poet 1668-1689)
« War seldom enters but where wealth allures. »
« War seldom enters but where wealth allures. »
- John Dryden (English Poet 1668-1689)
- John Dryden (English Poet 1668-1689)
« Jealousy, the jaundice of the soul. »
« Jealousy, the jaundice of the soul. »
- John Dryden (English Poet 1668-1689)
- John Dryden (English Poet 1668-1689)
« Sweet is pleasure after pain. »
« Sweet is pleasure after pain. »
- John Dryden (English Poet 1668-1689)
- John Dryden (English Poet 1668-1689)
« Love conquers all, and we must yield to Love. »
« Love conquers all, and we must yield to Love. »
- John Dryden (English Poet 1668-1689)
- John Dryden (English Poet 1668-1689)
« My next desire is, void of care and strife,
« My next desire is, void of care and strife,
To lead a soft, secure, inglorious life:
To lead a soft, secure, inglorious life:
A country cottage near a crystal flood,
A country cottage near a crystal flood,
A winding valley, and a lofty wood. »
A winding valley, and a lofty wood. »
- John Dryden (English Poet 1668-1689)
- John Dryden (English Poet 1668-1689)
« Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her. »
« Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her. »
- John Dryden (English Poet 1668-1689)
- John Dryden (English Poet 1668-1689)
« Since ev’ry man who lives is born to die,
« Since ev’ry man who lives is born to die,
And none can boast sincere felicity,
And none can boast sincere felicity,
With equal mind, what happens, let us bear,
With equal mind, what happens, let us bear,
Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. »
Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. »
- John Dryden (English Poet 1668-1689)
- John Dryden (English Poet 1668-1689)
« ...Art may err, but Nature cannot miss. »
« ...Art may err, but Nature cannot miss. »
- John Dryden (English Poet 1668-1689)
- John Dryden (English Poet 1668-1689)
« Calms appear, when storms are past,
« Calms appear, when storms are past,
Love will have its hour at last. »
Love will have its hour at last. »
- John Dryden (English Poet 1668-1689)
- John Dryden (English Poet 1668-1689)
« When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind! »
« When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind! »
- John Dryden (English Poet 1668-1689)
- John Dryden (English Poet 1668-1689)
John Locke
John Locke
« To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues. »
« To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues. »
- John Locke (English Philosopher 1632-1704)
- John Locke (English Philosopher 1632-1704)
« Bred a scholar he made his learning subservient only to the cause of truth. »
« Bred a scholar he made his learning subservient only to the cause of truth. »
- John Locke (English Philosopher 1632-1704)
- John Locke (English Philosopher 1632-1704)
« There cannot any one moral Rule be propos'd, whereof a Man may not justly demand a Reason. »
« There cannot any one moral Rule be propos'd, whereof a Man may not justly demand a Reason. »
- John Locke (English Philosopher 1632-1704)
- John Locke (English Philosopher 1632-1704)
« There are very few lovers of truth, for truth's sake, even amongst those who persuade themselves that they are so. »
« There are very few lovers of truth, for truth's sake, even amongst those who persuade themselves that they are so. »
- John Locke (English Philosopher 1632-1704)
- John Locke (English Philosopher 1632-1704)
« The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom. »
« The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom. »
- John Locke (English Philosopher 1632-1704)
- John Locke (English Philosopher 1632-1704)
« As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to... »
« As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to... »
- John Locke (English Philosopher 1632-1704)
- John Locke (English Philosopher 1632-1704)
John Ruskin
John Ruskin
« When we build, let us think that we build for ever. »
« When we build, let us think that we build for ever. »
- John Ruskin (English Author 1819-1900)
- John Ruskin (English Author 1819-1900)
« Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance. »
« Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance. »
- John Ruskin (English Author 1819-1900)
- John Ruskin (English Author 1819-1900)
« Of all God's gifts to the sight of man, colour is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. »
« Of all God's gifts to the sight of man, colour is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. »
- John Ruskin (English Author 1819-1900)
- John Ruskin (English Author 1819-1900)
« The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most. »
« The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most. »
- John Ruskin (English Author 1819-1900)
- John Ruskin (English Author 1819-1900)
« The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one. »
« The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one. »
- John Ruskin (English Author 1819-1900)
- John Ruskin (English Author 1819-1900)
« That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings. »
« That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings. »
- John Ruskin (English Author 1819-1900)
- John Ruskin (English Author 1819-1900)
« When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the colour-petals out of a fruitful flower;—when they are faithfully helpful and compassionate, all their emotions become steady, deep, perpetual, and vivifying to the soul as the natural pulse to the body. But now, having no true business, we pour our whole masculine energy into the false business of money-making; and having no true emotion, we must have false emotions dressed up for us to play with, not innocently, as children with dolls, but guiltily and darkly. »
« When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the colour-petals out of a fruitful flower;—when they are faithfully helpful and compassionate, all their emotions become steady, deep, perpetual, and vivifying to the soul as the natural pulse to the body. But now, having no true business, we pour our whole masculine energy into the false business of money-making; and having no true emotion, we must have false emotions dressed up for us to play with, not innocently, as children with dolls, but guiltily and darkly. »
- John Ruskin (English Author 1819-1900)
- John Ruskin (English Author 1819-1900)
« He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into Living peace. And the men who have this life in them are the true lords or kings of the earth — they, and they only. »
« He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into Living peace. And the men who have this life in them are the true lords or kings of the earth — they, and they only. »
- John Ruskin (English Author 1819-1900)
- John Ruskin (English Author 1819-1900)
« Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality. »
« Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality. »
- John Ruskin (English Author 1819-1900)
- John Ruskin (English Author 1819-1900)
« Ignorance, which is contented and clumsy, will produce what is imperfect, but not offensive. But ignorance discontented and dexterous, learning what it cannot understand, and imitating what it cannot enjoy, produces the most loathsome forms of manufacture that can disgrace or mislead humanity. »
« Ignorance, which is contented and clumsy, will produce what is imperfect, but not offensive. But ignorance discontented and dexterous, learning what it cannot understand, and imitating what it cannot enjoy, produces the most loathsome forms of manufacture that can disgrace or mislead humanity. »
- John Ruskin (English Author 1819-1900)
- John Ruskin (English Author 1819-1900)
« I have always found that the less we speak of our intentions, the more chance there is of our realizing them. »
« I have always found that the less we speak of our intentions, the more chance there is of our realizing them. »
- John Ruskin (English Author 1819-1900)
- John Ruskin (English Author 1819-1900)
« An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind. »
« An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind. »
- John Ruskin (English Author 1819-1900)
- John Ruskin (English Author 1819-1900)
« It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her. There are not many of her other works in which some more material or essential purpose than the mere pleasing of man is not answered by every part of their organization... »
« It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her. There are not many of her other works in which some more material or essential purpose than the mere pleasing of man is not answered by every part of their organization... »
- John Ruskin (English Author 1819-1900)
- John Ruskin (English Author 1819-1900)
John William Herschel
John William Herschel
« I am but as one drop in the ocean. Every man of science will feel quite as much a sharer in the honors of the day, will feel quite as much distinguished by this assembly as I can be; for when, ere this, would it have been possible to collect together such an assembly as is around me to do honor to science, place it n preeminence, and crown it with distinction? This is, indeed, a new era — this is a memorable day for science, and every man who regards truth for its own sake will feel that on this occasion the eyes of the country are on him, and that England expects every man to do his duty!... I hope we shall never allow ourselves to forget the infinitely higher and more important circumstance, that it is the great truths of science, that it is the interpretation of God's great book of nature, and not the men who interpret these pages, that are the ultimate objects of all this praise. »
« I am but as one drop in the ocean. Every man of science will feel quite as much a sharer in the honors of the day, will feel quite as much distinguished by this assembly as I can be; for when, ere this, would it have been possible to collect together such an assembly as is around me to do honor to science, place it n preeminence, and crown it with distinction? This is, indeed, a new era — this is a memorable day for science, and every man who regards truth for its own sake will feel that on this occasion the eyes of the country are on him, and that England expects every man to do his duty!... I hope we shall never allow ourselves to forget the infinitely higher and more important circumstance, that it is the great truths of science, that it is the interpretation of God's great book of nature, and not the men who interpret these pages, that are the ultimate objects of all this praise. »
- John Frederick William Herschel (English Polymath 1642-1726)
- John Frederick William Herschel (English Polymath 1642-1726)
« To the natural philosopher there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons. »
« To the natural philosopher there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons. »
- John Frederick William Herschel (English Polymath 1642-1726)
- John Frederick William Herschel (English Polymath 1642-1726)
« We must never forget that it is principles, not phenomena, — laws not insulated independent facts, — which are the objects of inquiry to the natural philosopher. As truth is single, and consistent with itself, a principle may be as completely and as plainly elucidated by the most familiar and simple fact, as by the most imposing and uncommon phenomenon. The colours which glitter on a soapbubble are the immediate consequence of a principle the most important, from the variety of phenomena it explains, and the most beautiful, from its simplicity and compendious neatness, in the whole science of optics. If the nature of periodical colours can be made intelligible by the contemplation of such a trivial object, from that moment it becomes a noble instrument in the eye of correct judgment; and to blow a large, regular, and durable soap-bubble may become the serious and praise-worthy endeavour of a sage, while children stand round and scoff, or children of a larger growth hold up their hands in astonishment at such waste of time and trouble. To the natural philosopher there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons. The fall of an apple to the ground may raise his thoughts to the laws which govern the revolutions of the planets in their orbits; or the situation of a pebble may afford him evidence of the state of the globe he inhabits, myriads of ages ago, before his species became its denizens. And this, is, in fact, one of the great sources of delight which the study of natural science imparts to its votaries. A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific inquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to the cases which occur, has within itself an inexhaustible source of pure and exciting contemplations. One would think that Shakspeare had such a mind in view when he describes a contemplative man as finding
« We must never forget that it is principles, not phenomena, — laws not insulated independent facts, — which are the objects of inquiry to the natural philosopher. As truth is single, and consistent with itself, a principle may be as completely and as plainly elucidated by the most familiar and simple fact, as by the most imposing and uncommon phenomenon. The colours which glitter on a soapbubble are the immediate consequence of a principle the most important, from the variety of phenomena it explains, and the most beautiful, from its simplicity and compendious neatness, in the whole science of optics. If the nature of periodical colours can be made intelligible by the contemplation of such a trivial object, from that moment it becomes a noble instrument in the eye of correct judgment; and to blow a large, regular, and durable soap-bubble may become the serious and praise-worthy endeavour of a sage, while children stand round and scoff, or children of a larger growth hold up their hands in astonishment at such waste of time and trouble. To the natural philosopher there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons. The fall of an apple to the ground may raise his thoughts to the laws which govern the revolutions of the planets in their orbits; or the situation of a pebble may afford him evidence of the state of the globe he inhabits, myriads of ages ago, before his species became its denizens. And this, is, in fact, one of the great sources of delight which the study of natural science imparts to its votaries. A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific inquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to the cases which occur, has within itself an inexhaustible source of pure and exciting contemplations. One would think that Shakspeare had such a mind in view when he describes a contemplative man as finding
'Tongues in trees — books in the running brooks — Sermons in stones — and good in every thing.' »
'Tongues in trees — books in the running brooks — Sermons in stones — and good in every thing.' »
- John Frederick William Herschel (English Polymath 1642-1726)
- John Frederick William Herschel (English Polymath 1642-1726)
« Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and uninquiring eye perceives neither novelty nor beauty, he walks in the midst of wonders: every object which I fells in his way elucidates some principle, affords some instruction, and impresses him with a sense of harmony and order. »
« Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and uninquiring eye perceives neither novelty nor beauty, he walks in the midst of wonders: every object which I fells in his way elucidates some principle, affords some instruction, and impresses him with a sense of harmony and order. »
- John Frederick William Herschel (English Polymath 1642-1726)
- John Frederick William Herschel (English Polymath 1642-1726)
« Science is the knowledge of many, orderly and methodically digested and arranged, so as to become attainable by one. »
« Science is the knowledge of many, orderly and methodically digested and arranged, so as to become attainable by one. »
- John Frederick William Herschel (English Polymath 1642-1726)
- John Frederick William Herschel (English Polymath 1642-1726)
« Smee's Red Ferrocyanate of Potash washed on paper gives it a fine pale green colour.
« Smee's Red Ferrocyanate of Potash washed on paper gives it a fine pale green colour.
April 23. 1842.
April 23. 1842.
The spectrum thrown on this paper acts slowly but about as fast as on Guiacum When the paper is thrown onto water the impression becomes stronger, loses its Violet ruddiness & turns to a fine prussian blue.
The spectrum thrown on this paper acts slowly but about as fast as on Guiacum When the paper is thrown onto water the impression becomes stronger, loses its Violet ruddiness & turns to a fine prussian blue.
a wash of very dilute acid immediately developed a strong blue impression, having the above character.
a wash of very dilute acid immediately developed a strong blue impression, having the above character.
This paper will prove valuable. »
This paper will prove valuable. »
- John Frederick William Herschel (English Polymath 1642-1726)
- John Frederick William Herschel (English Polymath 1642-1726)
« God knows how ardently I wish I had ten lives. »
« God knows how ardently I wish I had ten lives. »
- John Frederick William Herschel (English Polymath 1642-1726)
- John Frederick William Herschel (English Polymath 1642-1726)
« Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue. »
« Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue. »
- John Frederick William Herschel (English Polymath 1642-1726)
- John Frederick William Herschel (English Polymath 1642-1726)
John Muir
John Muir
« The mountains are calling and I must go. »
« The mountains are calling and I must go. »
- John Muir (Scottish-American Naturalist 1838-1914)
- John Muir (Scottish-American Naturalist 1838-1914)
« Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life. »
« Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life. »
- John Muir (Scottish-American Naturalist 1838-1914)
- John Muir (Scottish-American Naturalist 1838-1914)
« I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. »
« I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. »
- John Muir (Scottish-American Naturalist 1838-1914)
- John Muir (Scottish-American Naturalist 1838-1914)
« Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine into trees. »
« Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine into trees. »
- John Muir (Scottish-American Naturalist 1838-1914)
- John Muir (Scottish-American Naturalist 1838-1914)
« Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue. »
« Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue. »
- John Muir (Scottish-American Naturalist 1838-1914)
- John Muir (Scottish-American Naturalist 1838-1914)
« The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. »
« The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. »
- John Muir (Scottish-American Naturalist 1838-1914)
- John Muir (Scottish-American Naturalist 1838-1914)
« How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over. »
« How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over. »
- John Muir (Scottish-American Naturalist 1838-1914)
- John Muir (Scottish-American Naturalist 1838-1914)
« The snow is melting into music. »
« The snow is melting into music. »
- John Muir (Scottish-American Naturalist 1838-1914)
- John Muir (Scottish-American Naturalist 1838-1914)
« Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. »
« Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. »
- John Muir (Scottish-American Naturalist 1838-1914)
- John Muir (Scottish-American Naturalist 1838-1914)
« This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor ever rising. »
« This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor ever rising. »
- John Muir (Scottish-American Naturalist 1838-1914)
- John Muir (Scottish-American Naturalist 1838-1914)
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
« A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. »
« A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. »
- John Stuart Mill (English Political Philosopher 1806-1873)
- John Stuart Mill (English Political Philosopher 1806-1873)
« Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. »
« Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. »
- John Stuart Mill (English Political Philosopher 1806-1873)
- John Stuart Mill (English Political Philosopher 1806-1873)
« A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other. »
« A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other. »
- John Stuart Mill (English Political Philosopher 1806-1873)
- John Stuart Mill (English Political Philosopher 1806-1873)
« What I stated was, that the Conservative party was, by the law of its constitution, necessarily the stupidest party. Now, I do not retract this assertion; but I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it. Now, if any party, in addition to whatever share it may possess of the ability of the community, has nearly the whole of its stupidity, that party, I apprehend, must by the law of its constitution be the stupidest party. And I do not see why hon. Gentlemen should feel that position at all offensive to them; for it ensures their being always an extremely powerful party. »
« What I stated was, that the Conservative party was, by the law of its constitution, necessarily the stupidest party. Now, I do not retract this assertion; but I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it. Now, if any party, in addition to whatever share it may possess of the ability of the community, has nearly the whole of its stupidity, that party, I apprehend, must by the law of its constitution be the stupidest party. And I do not see why hon. Gentlemen should feel that position at all offensive to them; for it ensures their being always an extremely powerful party. »
- John Stuart Mill (English Political Philosopher 1806-1873)
- John Stuart Mill (English Political Philosopher 1806-1873)
« The richer a man is the less he is benefited by any further addition to his income. The man of £4,000 a year has four times the income of the man who has but £1,000; but does anybody suppose that he has four times the happiness? »
« The richer a man is the less he is benefited by any further addition to his income. The man of £4,000 a year has four times the income of the man who has but £1,000; but does anybody suppose that he has four times the happiness? »
- John Stuart Mill (English Political Philosopher 1806-1873)
- John Stuart Mill (English Political Philosopher 1806-1873)
« Fight on with all your strength against whatever odds, and with however small a band of supporters. If you are right, the time will come when that small band will swell into a multitude: you will at least lay the foundations of something memorable, and you may...—though you ought not to need or expect so great a reward—be spared to see that work completed which, when you began it, you only hoped it might be given to you to help forward a few stages on its way. »
« Fight on with all your strength against whatever odds, and with however small a band of supporters. If you are right, the time will come when that small band will swell into a multitude: you will at least lay the foundations of something memorable, and you may...—though you ought not to need or expect so great a reward—be spared to see that work completed which, when you began it, you only hoped it might be given to you to help forward a few stages on its way. »
- John Stuart Mill (English Political Philosopher 1806-1873)
- John Stuart Mill (English Political Philosopher 1806-1873)
« If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. »
« If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. »
- John Stuart Mill (English Political Philosopher 1806-1873)
- John Stuart Mill (English Political Philosopher 1806-1873)
« The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. »
« The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. »
- John Stuart Mill (English Political Philosopher 1806-1873)
- John Stuart Mill (English Political Philosopher 1806-1873)
« He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side; if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion. »
« He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side; if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion. »
- John Stuart Mill (English Political Philosopher 1806-1873)
- John Stuart Mill (English Political Philosopher 1806-1873)
« For my own part, not believing in universal selfishness, I have no difficulty in admitting that Communism would even now be practicable among the elite of mankind, and may become so among the rest. »
« For my own part, not believing in universal selfishness, I have no difficulty in admitting that Communism would even now be practicable among the elite of mankind, and may become so among the rest. »
- John Stuart Mill (English Political Philosopher 1806-1873)
- John Stuart Mill (English Political Philosopher 1806-1873)
« Whatever can be proved to be good, must be so by being shown to be a means to something admitted to be good without proof. »
« Whatever can be proved to be good, must be so by being shown to be a means to something admitted to be good without proof. »
- John Stuart Mill (English Political Philosopher 1806-1873)
- John Stuart Mill (English Political Philosopher 1806-1873)
« The utilitarian doctrine is, that happiness is desirable, and the only thing desirable, as an end; all other things being only desirable as means to that end. »
« The utilitarian doctrine is, that happiness is desirable, and the only thing desirable, as an end; all other things being only desirable as means to that end. »
- John Stuart Mill (English Political Philosopher 1806-1873)
- John Stuart Mill (English Political Philosopher 1806-1873)
« I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate a more moderate experiment. »
« I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate a more moderate experiment. »
- John Stuart Mill (English Political Philosopher 1806-1873)
- John Stuart Mill (English Political Philosopher 1806-1873)
« Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way. »
« Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way. »
- John Stuart Mill (English Political Philosopher 1806-1873)
- John Stuart Mill (English Political Philosopher 1806-1873)
« Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat, not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life. Let your self-consciousness, your scrutiny, your self-interrogation, exhaust themselves on that; and if otherwise fortunately circumstanced you will inhale happiness with the air you breathe, without dwelling on it or thinking about it, without either forestalling it in imagination, or putting it to flight by fatal questioning. »
« Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat, not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life. Let your self-consciousness, your scrutiny, your self-interrogation, exhaust themselves on that; and if otherwise fortunately circumstanced you will inhale happiness with the air you breathe, without dwelling on it or thinking about it, without either forestalling it in imagination, or putting it to flight by fatal questioning. »
- John Stuart Mill (English Political Philosopher 1806-1873)
- John Stuart Mill (English Political Philosopher 1806-1873)
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
« I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how. »
« I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how. »
- Joseph Stalin (Stalin, Premier of the USSR 1879-1953)
- Joseph Stalin (Stalin, Premier of the USSR 1879-1953)
« Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. »
« Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. »
- Joseph Stalin (Stalin, Premier of the USSR 1879-1953)
- Joseph Stalin (Stalin, Premier of the USSR 1879-1953)
« History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been. »
« History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been. »
- Joseph Stalin (Stalin, Premier of the USSR 1879-1953)
- Joseph Stalin (Stalin, Premier of the USSR 1879-1953)
« History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been. »
« History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been. »
- Joseph Stalin (Stalin, Premier of the USSR 1879-1953)
- Joseph Stalin (Stalin, Premier of the USSR 1879-1953)
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
« History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends. »
« History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends. »
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
« The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. »
« The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. »
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
« The tradition of all past generations weighs like a mountain on the minds of the living. »
« The tradition of all past generations weighs like a mountain on the minds of the living. »
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
« Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. »
« Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. »
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
« Man makes religion, religion does not make man. »
« Man makes religion, religion does not make man. »
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
« Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself. »
« Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself. »
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
« Political Economy regards the proletarian … like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. »
« Political Economy regards the proletarian … like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. »
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
« The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature. »
« The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature. »
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
« Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human. »
« Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human. »
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
« Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence. »
« Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence. »
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
« For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a shepherd, or a critical critic and must remain so if he does not wish to lose his means of livelihood; while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, to fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have in mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic. »
« For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a shepherd, or a critical critic and must remain so if he does not wish to lose his means of livelihood; while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, to fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have in mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic. »
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
« Where speculation ends — in real life — there real, positive science begins: the representation of the practical activity, of the practical process of development of men. Empty talk about consciousness ceases, and real knowledge has to take place. »
« Where speculation ends — in real life — there real, positive science begins: the representation of the practical activity, of the practical process of development of men. Empty talk about consciousness ceases, and real knowledge has to take place. »
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
« Communism differs from all previous movements in that it overturns the basis of all earlier relations of production and intercourse, and for the first time consciously treats all natural premises as the creatures of hitherto existing men, strips them of their natural character and subjugates them to the power of the united individuals. Its organisation is, therefore, essentially economic, the material production of the conditions of this unity; it turns existing conditions into conditions of unity. The reality, which communism is creating, is precisely the true basis for rendering it impossible that anything should exist independently of individuals, insofar as reality is only a product of the preceding intercourse of individuals themselves. »
« Communism differs from all previous movements in that it overturns the basis of all earlier relations of production and intercourse, and for the first time consciously treats all natural premises as the creatures of hitherto existing men, strips them of their natural character and subjugates them to the power of the united individuals. Its organisation is, therefore, essentially economic, the material production of the conditions of this unity; it turns existing conditions into conditions of unity. The reality, which communism is creating, is precisely the true basis for rendering it impossible that anything should exist independently of individuals, insofar as reality is only a product of the preceding intercourse of individuals themselves. »
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
« The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. »
« The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. »
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
« The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers. »
« The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers. »
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
« In place of the bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, shall we have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all. »
« In place of the bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, shall we have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all. »
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
« The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. »
« The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. »
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
« Workers of the world, unite! »
« Workers of the world, unite! »
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
« The object of art — like every other product — creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty. »
« The object of art — like every other product — creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty. »
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
« Ideas do not exist separately from language. »
« Ideas do not exist separately from language. »
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
« In fact of course, this 'productive' worker cares as much about the crappy shit he has to make as does the capitalist himself who employs him, and who also couldn't give a damn for the junk. »
« In fact of course, this 'productive' worker cares as much about the crappy shit he has to make as does the capitalist himself who employs him, and who also couldn't give a damn for the junk. »
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
« Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences. »
« Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences. »
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
« I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself. »
« I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself. »
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
« In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition. »
« In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition. »
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
- Karl Marx (German Philosopher & Economist 1818-1883)
Kraffts, Maurice & Katia
Kraffts, Maurice & Katia
"Alone they could only dream of volcanoes, together they can reach them" -Fire of Love
« My first eruption with lava flows and eruptions was on Mount Etna.
This world of stones, this mineral world.
Its very beautiful when the lava flows in the evening.
My first impression of seeing this living land confirmed what I had imagined and read. »
« My first eruption with lava flows and eruptions was on Mount Etna.
This world of stones, this mineral world.
Its very beautiful when the lava flows in the evening.
My first impression of seeing this living land confirmed what I had imagined and read. »
- Katia Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1942-1991)
- Katia Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1942-1991)
« Once you see an eruption, you cant live without it,
because it's so grandiose, it's so strong.
That feeling of being nothing at all, being in these untamed elements. »
« Once you see an eruption, you cant live without it,
because it's so grandiose, it's so strong.
That feeling of being nothing at all, being in these untamed elements. »
- Katia Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1942-1991)
- Katia Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1942-1991)
« A volcanic bomb is a rock ejected by a volcano, often in the form of lava... They can [weigh] a few tons... »
« A volcanic bomb is a rock ejected by a volcano, often in the form of lava... They can [weigh] a few tons... »
- Katia Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1942-1991)
- Katia Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1942-1991)
« ... certain colleagues see us as weirdos. »
« ... certain colleagues see us as weirdos. »
- Katia Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1942-1991)
- Katia Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1942-1991)
« I imagine the spectacle of us seen from above:
a ridiculous column of tiny ants climbing up the back of the giant beast and saying in arrogance:
I climb upon you to understand you,
to tear your thousand-year-old secrets from you,
So that Science can progress!
How great is the ambition and vanity of man? »
« I imagine the spectacle of us seen from above:
a ridiculous column of tiny ants climbing up the back of the giant beast and saying in arrogance:
I climb upon you to understand you,
to tear your thousand-year-old secrets from you,
So that Science can progress!
How great is the ambition and vanity of man? »
- Katia Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1942-1991)
- Katia Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1942-1991)
« We contemplate, lying at the edge of the abyss.
The phenomenon, relentless, makes us shiver. »
« We contemplate, lying at the edge of the abyss.
The phenomenon, relentless, makes us shiver. »
- Katia Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1942-1991)
- Katia Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1942-1991)
« Maurice says we are cray to stay here.
And yet, we remain.
Curiosity is stronger than fear. »
« Maurice says we are cray to stay here.
And yet, we remain.
Curiosity is stronger than fear. »
- Katia Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1942-1991)
- Katia Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1942-1991)
« It's not that I flirt with death,
but at that moment,
I dont care at all.
A fascination with danger? Perhaps. »
« It's not that I flirt with death,
but at that moment,
I dont care at all.
A fascination with danger? Perhaps. »
- Katia Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1942-1991)
- Katia Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1942-1991)
« We hesitate.
Do we get closer?
or do we take the boat and flee?
We decide to keep going.
Because there is the pleasure of approaching the beast,
not knowing if it will catch you.
I couldn't live with someone who doesn't share that love on top of a volcano. »
« We hesitate.
Do we get closer?
or do we take the boat and flee?
We decide to keep going.
Because there is the pleasure of approaching the beast,
not knowing if it will catch you.
I couldn't live with someone who doesn't share that love on top of a volcano. »
- Katia Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1942-1991)
- Katia Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1942-1991)
« I prefer an intense and short life to a monotonous, long one... »
« I prefer an intense and short life to a monotonous, long one... »
- Maurice Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1946-1991)
- Maurice Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1946-1991)
« We try to bear witness to this force,
but the human eye cannot see in geologic time.
Our lives are just a blink compared to the life of a volcano. »
« We try to bear witness to this force,
but the human eye cannot see in geologic time.
Our lives are just a blink compared to the life of a volcano. »
- Maurice Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1946-1991)
- Maurice Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1946-1991)
« When it comes to scientific discoveries,
like how a volcano works, or why the Earth is hot,
Virtually everything is unknown.
We know almost nothing. »
« When it comes to scientific discoveries,
like how a volcano works, or why the Earth is hot,
Virtually everything is unknown.
We know almost nothing. »
- Maurice Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1946-1991)
- Maurice Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1946-1991)
« I want to get closer, right into the belly of the volcano.
It will kill me one day, but that doesnt bother me at all. »
« I want to get closer, right into the belly of the volcano.
It will kill me one day, but that doesnt bother me at all. »
- Maurice Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1946-1991)
- Maurice Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1946-1991)
« ... it is the old beards and academics who classify things, forcing a whole generation to use their models. »
« ... it is the old beards and academics who classify things, forcing a whole generation to use their models. »
- Maurice Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1946-1991)
- Maurice Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1946-1991)
« Yeah,
My right leg was burned in hot mud. 140 degrees, hot enough for me!
it's a volcanologist baptism. »
« Yeah,
My right leg was burned in hot mud. 140 degrees, hot enough for me!
it's a volcanologist baptism. »
- Maurice Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1946-1991)
- Maurice Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1946-1991)
« The discovery and confirmation of plate tectonic theory and continental drift is as important as the discovery of the atom for physics. »
« The discovery and confirmation of plate tectonic theory and continental drift is as important as the discovery of the atom for physics. »
- Maurice Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1946-1991)
- Maurice Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1946-1991)
« I went to Stomboli with my father when I was 7 and it fascinated me.
The Earth has always interested me.
Some days, I lived in the dinosaur era, other days, I was with the Trilobites.
I was crazy about that as a kid. »
« I went to Stomboli with my father when I was 7 and it fascinated me.
The Earth has always interested me.
Some days, I lived in the dinosaur era, other days, I was with the Trilobites.
I was crazy about that as a kid. »
- Maurice Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1946-1991)
- Maurice Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1946-1991)
« Getting killed on a red volcano is very difficult.
Because a lava flow always funnels through a valley, like a river.
We know where it's going. »
« Getting killed on a red volcano is very difficult.
Because a lava flow always funnels through a valley, like a river.
We know where it's going. »
- Maurice Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1946-1991)
- Maurice Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1946-1991)
« It's no more dangerous than walking on a road in Belgium or elsewhere.
It's true!
It's a question of calculated risk. »
« It's no more dangerous than walking on a road in Belgium or elsewhere.
It's true!
It's a question of calculated risk. »
- Maurice Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1946-1991) on walking over "red" volcanoes
- Maurice Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1946-1991) on walking over "red" volcanoes
« Both Katia and I got into volcanology because we were dissapointed with humanity.
And since a volcano is greater than man,
we felt this is what we need.
Something beyond human understanding. »
« Both Katia and I got into volcanology because we were dissapointed with humanity.
And since a volcano is greater than man,
we felt this is what we need.
Something beyond human understanding. »
- Maurice Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1946-1991)
- Maurice Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1946-1991)
« Americans would call us freelance.
But it's true that we're like travelling performers.
Volcano runners. »
« Americans would call us freelance.
But it's true that we're like travelling performers.
Volcano runners. »
- Maurice Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1946-1991)
- Maurice Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1946-1991)
« We live by the rhythms of the Earth.
And the Earth decides where we go next. »
« We live by the rhythms of the Earth.
And the Earth decides where we go next. »
- Maurice Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1946-1991)
- Maurice Krafft (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1946-1991)
« The volcanological community can only join in: thank you for all you gave us, your unique example of devotion to our common goals, your stimulation and friendship, your professionalism, and your message about the beauty and the dangers of volcanoes. You made this message understood to a very large audience the world over. »
« The volcanological community can only join in: thank you for all you gave us, your unique example of devotion to our common goals, your stimulation and friendship, your professionalism, and your message about the beauty and the dangers of volcanoes. You made this message understood to a very large audience the world over. »
- Katia & Maurice Krafft Obituary In The Bulletin of Volcanology (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1942/46-1991)
- Katia & Maurice Krafft Obituary In The Bulletin of Volcanology (French Volcanologist/Photographer 1942/46-1991)
« Understanding is loves other name. »
« Understanding is loves other name. »
- Fire of Love (Krafft Documentary 2022)
- Fire of Love (Krafft Documentary 2022)
« Volcanology is a science of observation. The closer they get, the more they see. »
« Volcanology is a science of observation. The closer they get, the more they see. »
- Fire of Love (Krafft Documentary 2022)
- Fire of Love (Krafft Documentary 2022)
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo Da Vinci
« Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience. »
« Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience. »
- Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian Polymath 1452-1519)
- Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian Polymath 1452-1519)
« The water which rises in the mountain is the blood which keeps the mountain in life. »
« The water which rises in the mountain is the blood which keeps the mountain in life. »
- Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian Polymath 1452-1519)
- Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian Polymath 1452-1519)
« Observe the light and consider its beauty. Blink your eye and look at it. That which you see was not there at first, and that which was there is there no more. »
« Observe the light and consider its beauty. Blink your eye and look at it. That which you see was not there at first, and that which was there is there no more. »
- Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian Polymath 1452-1519)
- Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian Polymath 1452-1519)
« To enjoy—to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason. »
« To enjoy—to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason. »
- Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian Polymath 1452-1519)
- Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian Polymath 1452-1519)
« As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. »
« As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. »
- Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian Polymath 1452-1519)
- Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian Polymath 1452-1519)
« Intellectual passion drives out sensuality. »
« Intellectual passion drives out sensuality. »
- Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian Polymath 1452-1519)
- Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian Polymath 1452-1519)
« While I thought I have been learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. »
« While I thought I have been learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. »
- Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian Polymath 1452-1519)
- Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian Polymath 1452-1519)
« All bodies together, and each by itself, give off to the surrounding air an infinite number of images which are all-pervading and each complete, each conveying the nature, colour and form of the body which produces it. »
« All bodies together, and each by itself, give off to the surrounding air an infinite number of images which are all-pervading and each complete, each conveying the nature, colour and form of the body which produces it. »
- Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian Polymath 1452-1519)
- Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian Polymath 1452-1519)
« Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics. »
« Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics. »
- Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian Polymath 1452-1519)
- Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian Polymath 1452-1519)
« Human subtlety...will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. »
« Human subtlety...will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. »
- Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian Polymath 1452-1519)
- Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian Polymath 1452-1519)
« Poor is the pupil that does not surpass his master. »
« Poor is the pupil that does not surpass his master. »
- Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian Polymath 1452-1519)
- Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian Polymath 1452-1519)
« It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite. »
« It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite. »
- Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian Polymath 1452-1519)
- Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian Polymath 1452-1519)
« As a day well spent makes sleep seem pleasant, so a life well employed makes death pleasant. A life well spent is long. »
« As a day well spent makes sleep seem pleasant, so a life well employed makes death pleasant. A life well spent is long. »
- Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian Polymath 1452-1519)
- Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian Polymath 1452-1519)
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
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« ....... »
- Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (French Photographer & Artist 1787-1851)
- Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (French Photographer & Artist 1787-1851)
Lucian of Samosata
Lucian of Samosata
« The truth is hidden from us. Even if a mere piece of luck brings us straight to it, we shall have no grounded conviction of our success; there are so many similar objects, all claiming to be the real thing. »
« The truth is hidden from us. Even if a mere piece of luck brings us straight to it, we shall have no grounded conviction of our success; there are so many similar objects, all claiming to be the real thing. »
- Lucian of Samosata (Anatolio-Roman Satirist 125-190 CE)
- Lucian of Samosata (Anatolio-Roman Satirist 125-190 CE)
« I now make the only true statement you are to expect – that I am a liar. This confession is, I consider, a full defence against all imputations. My subject is, then, what I have neither seen, experienced, nor been told, what neither exists nor could conceivably do so. I humbly solicit my readers' incredulity. »
« I now make the only true statement you are to expect – that I am a liar. This confession is, I consider, a full defence against all imputations. My subject is, then, what I have neither seen, experienced, nor been told, what neither exists nor could conceivably do so. I humbly solicit my readers' incredulity. »
- Lucian of Samosata (Anatolio-Roman Satirist 125-190 CE)
- Lucian of Samosata (Anatolio-Roman Satirist 125-190 CE)
« Criticism is twofold: that which teaches us what we are to choose, and that which teaches us what to avoid. »
« Criticism is twofold: that which teaches us what we are to choose, and that which teaches us what to avoid. »
- Lucian of Samosata (Anatolio-Roman Satirist 125-190 CE)
- Lucian of Samosata (Anatolio-Roman Satirist 125-190 CE)
« In history, nothing fabulous can be agreeable. »
« In history, nothing fabulous can be agreeable. »
- Lucian of Samosata (Anatolio-Roman Satirist 125-190 CE)
- Lucian of Samosata (Anatolio-Roman Satirist 125-190 CE)
« The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened. »
« The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened. »
- Lucian of Samosata (Anatolio-Roman Satirist 125-190 CE)
- Lucian of Samosata (Anatolio-Roman Satirist 125-190 CE)
« The good historian, then, must be thus described: he must be fearless, uncorrupted, free, the friend of truth and of liberty; one who, to use the words of the comic poet, calls a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff, neither giving nor withholding from any, from favour or from enmity, not influenced by pity, by shame, or by remorse; a just judge, so far benevolent to all as never to give more than is due to any in his work; a stranger to all, of no country, bound only by his own laws, acknowledging no sovereign, never considering what this or that man may say of him, but relating faithfully everything as it happened. »
« The good historian, then, must be thus described: he must be fearless, uncorrupted, free, the friend of truth and of liberty; one who, to use the words of the comic poet, calls a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff, neither giving nor withholding from any, from favour or from enmity, not influenced by pity, by shame, or by remorse; a just judge, so far benevolent to all as never to give more than is due to any in his work; a stranger to all, of no country, bound only by his own laws, acknowledging no sovereign, never considering what this or that man may say of him, but relating faithfully everything as it happened. »
- Lucian of Samosata (Anatolio-Roman Satirist 125-190 CE)
- Lucian of Samosata (Anatolio-Roman Satirist 125-190 CE)
« For history, I say again, has this and this only for its own: if a man will start upon it, he must sacrifice to no God but Truth; he must neglect all else; his sole rule and unerring guide is this – to think not of those who are listening to him now, but of the yet unborn who shall seek his converse. »
« For history, I say again, has this and this only for its own: if a man will start upon it, he must sacrifice to no God but Truth; he must neglect all else; his sole rule and unerring guide is this – to think not of those who are listening to him now, but of the yet unborn who shall seek his converse. »
- Lucian of Samosata (Anatolio-Roman Satirist 125-190 CE)
- Lucian of Samosata (Anatolio-Roman Satirist 125-190 CE)
« Ignorance is a dreadful thing and has caused no end of damage to the human race. »
« Ignorance is a dreadful thing and has caused no end of damage to the human race. »
- Lucian of Samosata (Anatolio-Roman Satirist 125-190 CE)
- Lucian of Samosata (Anatolio-Roman Satirist 125-190 CE)
« The body of the history is only a long narrative, and as such it must go on with a soft and even motion, alike in every part, so that nothing should stand too forward, or retreat too far behind. »
« The body of the history is only a long narrative, and as such it must go on with a soft and even motion, alike in every part, so that nothing should stand too forward, or retreat too far behind. »
- Lucian of Samosata (Anatolio-Roman Satirist 125-190 CE)
- Lucian of Samosata (Anatolio-Roman Satirist 125-190 CE)
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
« We, the disinherited of this land, we who have been oppressed so long, are tired of going through the long night of captivity. And now we are reaching out for the daybreak of freedom and justice and equality. »
« We, the disinherited of this land, we who have been oppressed so long, are tired of going through the long night of captivity. And now we are reaching out for the daybreak of freedom and justice and equality. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all. »
« The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. »
« True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« ...some things are right and some things are wrong. Eternally so, absolutely so. It's wrong to hate. It always has been wrong and it always will be wrong. It's wrong in America, it's wrong in Germany, it's wrong in Russia, it's wrong in China. It was wrong in 2000 B.C., and it's wrong in 1954 A.D. It always has been wrong, and it always will be wrong. »
« ...some things are right and some things are wrong. Eternally so, absolutely so. It's wrong to hate. It always has been wrong and it always will be wrong. It's wrong in America, it's wrong in Germany, it's wrong in Russia, it's wrong in China. It was wrong in 2000 B.C., and it's wrong in 1954 A.D. It always has been wrong, and it always will be wrong. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« Some things are right and some things are wrong, no matter if everybody is doing the contrary. Some things in this universe are absolute. »
« Some things are right and some things are wrong, no matter if everybody is doing the contrary. Some things in this universe are absolute. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« It is not enough to know that two and two makes four, but we've got to know somehow that it's right to be honest and just with our brothers. It's not enough to know all about our philosophical and mathematical disciplines, but we've got to know the simple disciplines of being honest and loving and just with all humanity. If we don't learn it, we will destroy ourselves by the misuse of our own powers. »
« It is not enough to know that two and two makes four, but we've got to know somehow that it's right to be honest and just with our brothers. It's not enough to know all about our philosophical and mathematical disciplines, but we've got to know the simple disciplines of being honest and loving and just with all humanity. If we don't learn it, we will destroy ourselves by the misuse of our own powers. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil. »
« Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« Give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights. »
« Give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« We must work with determination to create a society, not where black men are superior and other men are inferior and vice versa, but a society in which all men will live together as brothers and respect the dignity and worth of human personality. »
« We must work with determination to create a society, not where black men are superior and other men are inferior and vice versa, but a society in which all men will live together as brothers and respect the dignity and worth of human personality. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« Keep moving. Let nothing slow you up. Move on with dignity and honor and respectability. »
« Keep moving. Let nothing slow you up. Move on with dignity and honor and respectability. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality. »
« An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?' »
« Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?' »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« Force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody. Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love. »
« Force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody. Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« Hate at any point is a cancer that gnaws away at the very vital center of your life and your existence. It is like eroding acid that eats away the best and the objective center of your life. »
« Hate at any point is a cancer that gnaws away at the very vital center of your life and your existence. It is like eroding acid that eats away the best and the objective center of your life. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« Non-cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. »
« Non-cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. »
« We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« The chain reaction of evil — hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars — must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. »
« The chain reaction of evil — hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars — must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. »
« Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up. Love transforms with redemptive power. »
« By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up. Love transforms with redemptive power. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. »
« Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. »
« There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« The time is always right to do what's right. »
« The time is always right to do what's right. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane. »
« Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children. »
« Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right. »
« There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom. »
« I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good. »
« I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« We demand this fraud be stopped. Our weapon is our vote. »
« We demand this fraud be stopped. Our weapon is our vote. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« Life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony. »
« Life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« There is little hope for us until we become toughminded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. »
« There is little hope for us until we become toughminded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« The best way to solve any problem is to remove the cause. »
« The best way to solve any problem is to remove the cause. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until 'justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.' »
« no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until 'justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.' »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. »
« We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« There is but one way to commemorate the Emancipation Proclamation. That is to make its declarations of freedom real; to reach back to the origins of our nation when our message of equality electrified an unfree world, and reaffirm democracy by deeds as bold and daring as the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. »
« There is but one way to commemorate the Emancipation Proclamation. That is to make its declarations of freedom real; to reach back to the origins of our nation when our message of equality electrified an unfree world, and reaffirm democracy by deeds as bold and daring as the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« ... I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal...' »
« ... I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal...' »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the
difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state, sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of
their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today. »
« Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the
difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state, sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of
their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. »
« I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!" »
« When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!" »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the “unalienable Rights” of “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”
« When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the “unalienable Rights” of “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. »
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« ...we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. »
« ...we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off, or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children. »
« This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off, or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
« We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. »
« We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. »
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (American Civil Rights Pioneer 1929-1968)
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Nanna
(Mesopotamian Moon Goddess)
Nanna
(Mesopotamian Moon Goddess)
« Your greatness covers all countries. Your fearsome radiance overwhelms the holy sky. »
« Your greatness covers all countries. Your fearsome radiance overwhelms the holy sky. »
- Nanna (Mesopotamian Moon God)
- Nanna (Mesopotamian Moon God)
Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong
« I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. »
« I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. »
- Niel Armstrong (American Aviator/Astronaut 1930-2012)
- Niel Armstrong (American Aviator/Astronaut 1930-2012)
« Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed. »
« Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed. »
- Niel Armstrong (American Aviator/Astronaut 1930-2012)
- Niel Armstrong (American Aviator/Astronaut 1930-2012)
« That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind. »
« That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind. »
- Niel Armstrong (American Aviator/Astronaut 1930-2012)
- Niel Armstrong (American Aviator/Astronaut 1930-2012)
« The exciting part for me, as a pilot, was the landing on the moon. That was the time that we had achieved the national goal of putting Americans on the moon. The landing approach was, by far, the most difficult and challenging part of the flight. Walking on the lunar surface was very interesting, but it was something we looked on as reasonably safe and predictable. So the feeling of elation accompanied the landing rather than the walking. »
« The exciting part for me, as a pilot, was the landing on the moon. That was the time that we had achieved the national goal of putting Americans on the moon. The landing approach was, by far, the most difficult and challenging part of the flight. Walking on the lunar surface was very interesting, but it was something we looked on as reasonably safe and predictable. So the feeling of elation accompanied the landing rather than the walking. »
- Niel Armstrong (American Aviator/Astronaut 1930-2012)
- Niel Armstrong (American Aviator/Astronaut 1930-2012)
« ...today's cell phones are far more powerful than the computers on the Apollo Command Module and Lunar Module that we used to navigate to the moon and operate all the spacecraft control systems. »
« ...today's cell phones are far more powerful than the computers on the Apollo Command Module and Lunar Module that we used to navigate to the moon and operate all the spacecraft control systems. »
- Niel Armstrong (American Aviator/Astronaut 1930-2012)
- Niel Armstrong (American Aviator/Astronaut 1930-2012)
« Americans have visited and examined 6 locations on Luna, varying in size from a suburban lot to a small township. That leaves more than 14 million square miles yet to explore. »
« Americans have visited and examined 6 locations on Luna, varying in size from a suburban lot to a small township. That leaves more than 14 million square miles yet to explore. »
- Niel Armstrong (American Aviator/Astronaut 1930-2012)
- Niel Armstrong (American Aviator/Astronaut 1930-2012)
Neil Postman
Neil Postman
« All our knowledge results from questions, which is another way of saying that question-asking is our most important intellectual tool. »
« All our knowledge results from questions, which is another way of saying that question-asking is our most important intellectual tool. »
- Niel Postman (American Author/Educator 1931-2003)
- Niel Postman (American Author/Educator 1931-2003)
« Whether it be "molecule," "fact," "law," "art," "wealth," "gene," or whatever, it is essential that students understand that definitions are hypotheses, and that embedded in them is a particular philosophical, sociological, or epistemological point of view. »
« Whether it be "molecule," "fact," "law," "art," "wealth," "gene," or whatever, it is essential that students understand that definitions are hypotheses, and that embedded in them is a particular philosophical, sociological, or epistemological point of view. »
- Niel Postman (American Author/Educator 1931-2003)
- Niel Postman (American Author/Educator 1931-2003)
« No one I have ever known is so brilliant as to have learned the languages of all fields of knowledge equally well. Most of us do not learn some of them at all. »
« No one I have ever known is so brilliant as to have learned the languages of all fields of knowledge equally well. Most of us do not learn some of them at all. »
- Niel Postman (American Author/Educator 1931-2003)
- Niel Postman (American Author/Educator 1931-2003)
« Definitions, like questions and metaphors, are instruments for thinking. Their authority rests entirely on their usefulness, not their correctness. »
« Definitions, like questions and metaphors, are instruments for thinking. Their authority rests entirely on their usefulness, not their correctness. »
- Niel Postman (American Author/Educator 1931-2003)
- Niel Postman (American Author/Educator 1931-2003)
« As one learns the language of a subject, one is also learning what the subject is. »
« As one learns the language of a subject, one is also learning what the subject is. »
- Niel Postman (American Author/Educator 1931-2003)
- Niel Postman (American Author/Educator 1931-2003)
« Since there is no such thing as complete knowledge of a subject, one is always working to improve one's reading, writing, etc., of a subject. »
« Since there is no such thing as complete knowledge of a subject, one is always working to improve one's reading, writing, etc., of a subject. »
- Niel Postman (American Author/Educator 1931-2003)
- Niel Postman (American Author/Educator 1931-2003)
« It is precisely through one's learning about the total context in which the language of a subject is expressed that personality may be altered. If one learns how to speak history or mathematics or literary criticism, one becomes, by definition, a different person. The point to be stressed is that a subject is a situation in which and through which people conduct themselves, largely in language. You cannot learn a new form of conduct without changing yourself. »
« It is precisely through one's learning about the total context in which the language of a subject is expressed that personality may be altered. If one learns how to speak history or mathematics or literary criticism, one becomes, by definition, a different person. The point to be stressed is that a subject is a situation in which and through which people conduct themselves, largely in language. You cannot learn a new form of conduct without changing yourself. »
- Niel Postman (American Author/Educator 1931-2003)
- Niel Postman (American Author/Educator 1931-2003)
« The meaning I have given here to "language education" represents it as a form of metaeducation. That is, one learns a subject and, at the same time, learns what the subject is made of. »
« The meaning I have given here to "language education" represents it as a form of metaeducation. That is, one learns a subject and, at the same time, learns what the subject is made of. »
- Niel Postman (American Author/Educator 1931-2003)
- Niel Postman (American Author/Educator 1931-2003)
« Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. »
« Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. »
- Niel Postman (American Author/Educator 1931-2003)
- Niel Postman (American Author/Educator 1931-2003)
« The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable. »
« The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable. »
- Niel Postman (American Author/Educator 1931-2003)
- Niel Postman (American Author/Educator 1931-2003)
« What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one... In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us. »
« What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one... In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us. »
- Niel Postman (American Author/Educator 1931-2003)
- Niel Postman (American Author/Educator 1931-2003)
« The world in which we live is very nearly incomprehensible to most of us. There is almost no fact ...that will surprise us for very long, since we have no comprehensive and consistent picture of the world which would make the fact appear as an unacceptable contradiction. »
« The world in which we live is very nearly incomprehensible to most of us. There is almost no fact ...that will surprise us for very long, since we have no comprehensive and consistent picture of the world which would make the fact appear as an unacceptable contradiction. »
- Niel Postman (American Author/Educator 1931-2003)
- Niel Postman (American Author/Educator 1931-2003)
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Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney
« Pop music is the classical music of now. »
« Pop music is the classical music of now. »
- Paul McCartney (British Singer/Songwriter 1942-present)
- Paul McCartney (British Singer/Songwriter 1942-present)
Pliny the Younger
Pliny the Younger
« A cloud, from which mountain was uncertain, at this distance, was ascending, the appearance of which I cannot give you a more exact description of than by likening it to that of a pine-tree, for it shot up to a great height in the form of a very tall trunk, which spread itself out at the top into a sort of branches; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force of which decreased as it advanced upwards, or the cloud itself, being pressed back again by its own weight, expanded in the manner I have mentioned; it appeared sometimes bright and sometimes dark and spotted, according as it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This phenomenon seemed to a man of such learning and research as my uncle extraordinary and
worth further looking into. »
« A cloud, from which mountain was uncertain, at this distance, was ascending, the appearance of which I cannot give you a more exact description of than by likening it to that of a pine-tree, for it shot up to a great height in the form of a very tall trunk, which spread itself out at the top into a sort of branches; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force of which decreased as it advanced upwards, or the cloud itself, being pressed back again by its own weight, expanded in the manner I have mentioned; it appeared sometimes bright and sometimes dark and spotted, according as it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This phenomenon seemed to a man of such learning and research as my uncle extraordinary and
worth further looking into. »
- Pliny the Younger (Roman Natural Philosopher 63-113 CE)
- Pliny the Younger (Roman Natural Philosopher 63-113 CE)
First detailed written description of a volcanic eruption, Vesuvius in 79 AD
First detailed written description of a volcanic eruption, Vesuvius in 79 AD
Plutarch
Plutarch
« Be ruled by time, the wisest counsellor of all. »
« Be ruled by time, the wisest counsellor of all. »
- Plutarch (Greek Historian 46-120 CE)
- Plutarch (Greek Historian 46-120 CE)
« Be ruled by time, the wisest counsellor of all. »
« Be ruled by time, the wisest counsellor of all. »
- Plutarch (Greek Historian 46-120 CE)
- Plutarch (Greek Historian 46-120 CE)
« Medicine, to produce health, has to examine disease; and music, to create harmony, must investigate discord. »
« Medicine, to produce health, has to examine disease; and music, to create harmony, must investigate discord. »
- Plutarch (Greek Historian 46-120 CE)
- Plutarch (Greek Historian 46-120 CE)
« Be ruled by time, the wisest counsellor of all. »
« Be ruled by time, the wisest counsellor of all. »
- Plutarch (Greek Historian 46-120 CE)
- Plutarch (Greek Historian 46-120 CE)
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Socrates
Socrates
« The unexamined life is not worth living. »
« The unexamined life is not worth living. »
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
« It would be better for me... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself. »
« It would be better for me... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself. »
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
« I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed ... from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty. »
« I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed ... from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty. »
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
« If the entire soul, then, follows without rebellion the part which loves wisdom, the result is that in general each part can carry out its own function—can be just, in other words—and in particular each is able to enjoy pleasures which are its own, the best, and, as far as possible, the truest. »
« If the entire soul, then, follows without rebellion the part which loves wisdom, the result is that in general each part can carry out its own function—can be just, in other words—and in particular each is able to enjoy pleasures which are its own, the best, and, as far as possible, the truest. »
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
« Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road. »
« Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road. »
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
« When I left him, I reasoned thus with myself: I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know. »
« When I left him, I reasoned thus with myself: I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know. »
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
« False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. »
« False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. »
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
« The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways — I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows. »
« The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways — I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows. »
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
« I would rather die having spoken in my manner, than speak in your manner and live... The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs deeper than death. »
« I would rather die having spoken in my manner, than speak in your manner and live... The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs deeper than death. »
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
« He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world. »
« He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world. »
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
« By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful. For this appears to me the safest answer to give both to myself and others; and adhering to this, I think that I shall never fall, but that it is a safe answer both for me and any one else to give — that by means of beauty beautiful things become beautiful. »
« By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful. For this appears to me the safest answer to give both to myself and others; and adhering to this, I think that I shall never fall, but that it is a safe answer both for me and any one else to give — that by means of beauty beautiful things become beautiful. »
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
« I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. »
« I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. »
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
« Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. »
« Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. »
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
« There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. »
« There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. »
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
« Follow me, then, and learn. »
« Follow me, then, and learn. »
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
« Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. »
« Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. »
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
« I myself know nothing, except just a little, enough to extract an argument from another man who is wise and to receive it fairly. »
« I myself know nothing, except just a little, enough to extract an argument from another man who is wise and to receive it fairly. »
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
« Follow me, then, and learn. »
« Follow me, then, and learn. »
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher 470-399 BCE)
Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
« What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die. »
« What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die. »
- Søren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher/Theologian 1813-1855)
- Søren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher/Theologian 1813-1855)
« The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. »
« The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. »
- Søren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher/Theologian 1813-1855)
- Søren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher/Theologian 1813-1855)
« To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner, put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and the way he understands it. »
« To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner, put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and the way he understands it. »
- Søren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher/Theologian 1813-1855)
- Søren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher/Theologian 1813-1855)
« It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand... »
« It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand... »
- Søren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher/Theologian 1813-1855)
- Søren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher/Theologian 1813-1855)
« The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins. »
« The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins. »
- Søren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher/Theologian 1813-1855)
- Søren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher/Theologian 1813-1855)
« Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. »
« Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. »
- Søren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher/Theologian 1813-1855)
- Søren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher/Theologian 1813-1855)
« I must find a truth that is true for me. »
« I must find a truth that is true for me. »
- Søren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher/Theologian 1813-1855)
- Søren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher/Theologian 1813-1855)
« Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular. »
« Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular. »
- Søren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher/Theologian 1813-1855)
- Søren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher/Theologian 1813-1855)
« Aristotle's view that philosophy begins with wonder, not as in our day with doubt, is a positive point of departure for philosophy. Indeed, the world will no doubt learn that it does not do to begin with the negative, and the reason for success up to the present is that philosophers have never quite surrendered to the negative and thus have never earnestly done what they have said. They merely flirt with doubt. »
« Aristotle's view that philosophy begins with wonder, not as in our day with doubt, is a positive point of departure for philosophy. Indeed, the world will no doubt learn that it does not do to begin with the negative, and the reason for success up to the present is that philosophers have never quite surrendered to the negative and thus have never earnestly done what they have said. They merely flirt with doubt. »
- Søren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher/Theologian 1813-1855)
- Søren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher/Theologian 1813-1855)
« It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished. Since I am incompetent and extremely undependable in men's eyes, I speak the truth and thereby place them in the contradiction from which they can be extricated only by appropriating the truth themselves. A man's personality is matured only when he appropriates the truth, whether it is spoken by Balaam's ass or a sniggering wag or an apostle or an angel. »
« It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished. Since I am incompetent and extremely undependable in men's eyes, I speak the truth and thereby place them in the contradiction from which they can be extricated only by appropriating the truth themselves. A man's personality is matured only when he appropriates the truth, whether it is spoken by Balaam's ass or a sniggering wag or an apostle or an angel. »
- Søren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher/Theologian 1813-1855)
- Søren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher/Theologian 1813-1855)
« Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the millions and millions in this enormous household. One keeps this anxiety at a distance by looking at the many round about who are related to him as kin and friends, but the anxiety is still there, nevertheless, and one hardly dares think of how he would feel if all this were taken away. »
« Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the millions and millions in this enormous household. One keeps this anxiety at a distance by looking at the many round about who are related to him as kin and friends, but the anxiety is still there, nevertheless, and one hardly dares think of how he would feel if all this were taken away. »
- Søren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher/Theologian 1813-1855)
- Søren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher/Theologian 1813-1855)
« It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. »
« It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. »
- Søren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher/Theologian 1813-1855)
- Søren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher/Theologian 1813-1855)
Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick
« The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed. »
« The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed. »
- Stanley Kubrick (American Cinematographer 1928-1999)
- Stanley Kubrick (American Cinematographer 1928-1999)
« The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death — however mutable man may be able to make them — our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. »
« The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death — however mutable man may be able to make them — our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. »
- Stanley Kubrick (American Cinematographer 1928-1999)
- Stanley Kubrick (American Cinematographer 1928-1999)
« I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly. »
« I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly. »
- Stanley Kubrick (American Cinematographer 1928-1999)
- Stanley Kubrick (American Cinematographer 1928-1999)
« I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. »
« I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. »
- Stanley Kubrick (American Cinematographer 1928-1999)
- Stanley Kubrick (American Cinematographer 1928-1999)
« I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. »
« I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. »
- Stanley Kubrick (American Cinematographer 1928-1999)
- Stanley Kubrick (American Cinematographer 1928-1999)
« Include utter banalities. »
« Include utter banalities. »
- Stanley Kubrick (American Cinematographer 1928-1999)
- Stanley Kubrick (American Cinematographer 1928-1999)
« One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony.
It is essential that one man make a film. »
« One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony.
It is essential that one man make a film. »
- Stanley Kubrick (American Cinematographer 1928-1999)
- Stanley Kubrick (American Cinematographer 1928-1999)
« The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed. »
« The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed. »
- Stanley Kubrick (American Cinematographer 1928-1999)
- Stanley Kubrick (American Cinematographer 1928-1999)
« If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would surely go mad, or succumb to a numbing sense of futility. Why, he might ask himself, should he bother to write a great symphony, or strive to make a living, or even to love another, when he is no more than a momentary microbe on a dust mote whirling through the unimaginable immensity of space? ...
« If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would surely go mad, or succumb to a numbing sense of futility. Why, he might ask himself, should he bother to write a great symphony, or strive to make a living, or even to love another, when he is no more than a momentary microbe on a dust mote whirling through the unimaginable immensity of space? ...
Those of us who are forced by their own sensibilities to view their lives in this perspective — who recognize that there is no purpose they can comprehend and that amidst a countless myriad of stars their existence goes unknown and unchronicled — can fall prey all too easily to the ultimate anomie. … The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache … This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware. »
Those of us who are forced by their own sensibilities to view their lives in this perspective — who recognize that there is no purpose they can comprehend and that amidst a countless myriad of stars their existence goes unknown and unchronicled — can fall prey all too easily to the ultimate anomie. … The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache … This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware. »
- Stanley Kubrick (American Cinematographer 1928-1999)
- Stanley Kubrick (American Cinematographer 1928-1999)
« The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed. »
« The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed. »
- Stanley Kubrick (American Cinematographer 1928-1999)
- Stanley Kubrick (American Cinematographer 1928-1999)
« The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed. »
« The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed. »
- Stanley Kubrick (American Cinematographer 1928-1999)
- Stanley Kubrick (American Cinematographer 1928-1999)
Sun Zu
Sun Zu
« What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease. »
« What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease. »
- Sun Zu (Ancient Chinese Philosopher & Military Strategist 6th Century BCE)
- Sun Zu (Ancient Chinese Philosopher & Military Strategist 6th Century BCE)
« Let your rapidity be that of the wind, your gentleness that of the forest. In raiding and plundering be like fire, be immovable like a mountain. Be as hard to know as the shadow and Move as fast as lightning. »
« Let your rapidity be that of the wind, your gentleness that of the forest. In raiding and plundering be like fire, be immovable like a mountain. Be as hard to know as the shadow and Move as fast as lightning. »
- Sun Zu (Ancient Chinese Philosopher & Military Strategist 6th Century BCE)
- Sun Zu (Ancient Chinese Philosopher & Military Strategist 6th Century BCE)
« A leader leads by example not by force. »
« A leader leads by example not by force. »
- Sun Zu (Ancient Chinese Philosopher & Military Strategist 6th Century BCE)
- Sun Zu (Ancient Chinese Philosopher & Military Strategist 6th Century BCE)
« When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum. When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is because of timing. »
« When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum. When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is because of timing. »
- Sun Zu (Ancient Chinese Philosopher & Military Strategist 6th Century BCE)
- Sun Zu (Ancient Chinese Philosopher & Military Strategist 6th Century BCE)
« Speed is the essence of war. »
« Speed is the essence of war. »
- Sun Zu (Ancient Chinese Philosopher & Military Strategist 6th Century BCE)
- Sun Zu (Ancient Chinese Philosopher & Military Strategist 6th Century BCE)
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Umberto Echo
Umberto Echo
« In this world you either read or write, and writers write out of contempt for their colleagues, out of a desire to have something good to read once in a while. »
« In this world you either read or write, and writers write out of contempt for their colleagues, out of a desire to have something good to read once in a while. »
- Umberto Echo (Italian Philosopher & Essayist 1932-2016)
- Umberto Echo (Italian Philosopher & Essayist 1932-2016)
« The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. »
« The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. »
- Umberto Echo (Italian Philosopher & Essayist 1932-2016)
- Umberto Echo (Italian Philosopher & Essayist 1932-2016)
« The language of Europe is translation. »
« The language of Europe is translation. »
- Umberto Echo (Italian Philosopher & Essayist 1932-2016)
- Umberto Echo (Italian Philosopher & Essayist 1932-2016)
« After all, the cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopaedia. »
« After all, the cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopaedia. »
- Umberto Echo (Italian Philosopher & Essayist 1932-2016)
- Umberto Echo (Italian Philosopher & Essayist 1932-2016)
« Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means... »
« Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means... »
- Umberto Echo (Italian Philosopher & Essayist 1932-2016)
- Umberto Echo (Italian Philosopher & Essayist 1932-2016)
« A philosophy has a practical power: it contributes to the changing of the world. »
« A philosophy has a practical power: it contributes to the changing of the world. »
- Umberto Echo (Italian Philosopher & Essayist 1932-2016)
- Umberto Echo (Italian Philosopher & Essayist 1932-2016)
« After all, the cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopaedia. »
« After all, the cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopaedia. »
- Umberto Echo (Italian Philosopher & Essayist 1932-2016)
- Umberto Echo (Italian Philosopher & Essayist 1932-2016)
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Van Gogh
Van Gogh
« Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful »
« Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful »
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
« I would rather die of passion than of boredom »
« I would rather die of passion than of boredom »
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890) Quoting Émile Zola
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890) Quoting Émile Zola
« ... it is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done. »
« ... it is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done. »
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
« Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way. »
« Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way. »
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
« ...as the rough draft becomes a sketch and the sketch becomes a picture. »
« ...as the rough draft becomes a sketch and the sketch becomes a picture. »
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
« In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing. »
« In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing. »
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
« I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may.
« I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may.
But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought. »
But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought. »
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
« So please don't think that I am renouncing anything, I am reasonably faithful in my unfaithfulness and though I have changed, I am the same, and what preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way, how can I become more knowledgeable and study some subject or other in depth? »
« So please don't think that I am renouncing anything, I am reasonably faithful in my unfaithfulness and though I have changed, I am the same, and what preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way, how can I become more knowledgeable and study some subject or other in depth? »
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
« I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? »
« I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? »
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
« What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. »
« What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. »
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
« Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. »
« Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. »
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
« A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, but rather he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think but acts, and he feels how things must go more than he can explain it. »
« A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, but rather he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think but acts, and he feels how things must go more than he can explain it. »
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
« Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. »
« Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. »
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
« Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy. »
« Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy. »
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
« Now, there are people who say to me "Why did you have anything to do with her," — that's one fact. And there are people who say to her, "Why did you have anything to do with him," — that's another fact... but aren't the wise ones, those who never do anything foolish, even more foolish in my eyes than I am in theirs? »
« Now, there are people who say to me "Why did you have anything to do with her," — that's one fact. And there are people who say to her, "Why did you have anything to do with him," — that's another fact... but aren't the wise ones, those who never do anything foolish, even more foolish in my eyes than I am in theirs? »
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
« I tell you, if one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes now and then. Many people think that they will become good just by doing no harm - but that's a lie... That way lies stagnation, mediocrity. »
« I tell you, if one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes now and then. Many people think that they will become good just by doing no harm - but that's a lie... That way lies stagnation, mediocrity. »
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
« Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a blank canvas. But no matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily. »
« Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a blank canvas. But no matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily. »
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
« I repeat, let us paint as much as we can and be productive, and be ourselves with all our faults and qualities; I say us, because the money from you [Theo], which I know costs you trouble enough to procure me, gives you the right, when there is some good in my work, to consider half of it your creation. »
« I repeat, let us paint as much as we can and be productive, and be ourselves with all our faults and qualities; I say us, because the money from you [Theo], which I know costs you trouble enough to procure me, gives you the right, when there is some good in my work, to consider half of it your creation. »
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
« The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. »
« The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. »
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
« The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose. »
« The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose. »
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
- Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Painter 1853-1890)
Vitruvius
Vitruvius
« For neither talent without instruction nor instruction without talent can produce the perfect craftsman. »
« For neither talent without instruction nor instruction without talent can produce the perfect craftsman. »
- Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus (Roman Architect & Engineer ~80-25 BCE)
- Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus (Roman Architect & Engineer ~80-25 BCE)
« The architect should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory. »
« The architect should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory. »
- Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus (Roman Architect & Engineer ~80-25 BCE)
- Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus (Roman Architect & Engineer ~80-25 BCE)
« Men have no right to profess themselves architects hastily, without having climbed from boyhood the steps of these studies and thus, nursed by the knowledge of many arts and sciences, having reached the heights of the holy ground of architecture. »
« Men have no right to profess themselves architects hastily, without having climbed from boyhood the steps of these studies and thus, nursed by the knowledge of many arts and sciences, having reached the heights of the holy ground of architecture. »
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Roman Architect & Engineer ~80-25 BCE)
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Roman Architect & Engineer ~80-25 BCE)
« ...the arts are each composed of two things, the actual work and the theory of it. »
« ...the arts are each composed of two things, the actual work and the theory of it. »
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Roman Architect & Engineer ~80-25 BCE)
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Roman Architect & Engineer ~80-25 BCE)
« Heat is a universal solvent, melting out of things their power of resistance, and sucking away and removing their natural strength with its fiery exhalations so that they grow soft, and hence weak, under its glow. »
« Heat is a universal solvent, melting out of things their power of resistance, and sucking away and removing their natural strength with its fiery exhalations so that they grow soft, and hence weak, under its glow. »
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Roman Architect & Engineer ~80-25 BCE)
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Roman Architect & Engineer ~80-25 BCE)
« ...it was the discovery of fire that originally gave rise to the coming together of men... »
« ...it was the discovery of fire that originally gave rise to the coming together of men... »
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Roman Architect & Engineer ~80-25 BCE)
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Roman Architect & Engineer ~80-25 BCE)
« There is no kind of material, no body, and no thing that can be produced or conceived of, which is not made up of elementary particles »
« There is no kind of material, no body, and no thing that can be produced or conceived of, which is not made up of elementary particles »
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Roman Architect & Engineer ~80-25 BCE)
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Roman Architect & Engineer ~80-25 BCE)
« For the eye is always in search of beauty... »
« For the eye is always in search of beauty... »
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Roman Architect & Engineer ~80-25 BCE)
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Roman Architect & Engineer ~80-25 BCE)
« In fact, all kinds of men, and not merely architects, can recognize a good piece of work... »
« In fact, all kinds of men, and not merely architects, can recognize a good piece of work... »
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Roman Architect & Engineer ~80-25 BCE)
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Roman Architect & Engineer ~80-25 BCE)
« The word "universe" means the general assemblage of all nature, and it also means the heaven that is made up of the constellations and the courses of the stars. »
« The word "universe" means the general assemblage of all nature, and it also means the heaven that is made up of the constellations and the courses of the stars. »
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Roman Architect & Engineer ~80-25 BCE)
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Roman Architect & Engineer ~80-25 BCE)
« From astronomy we find the east, west, south, and north, as well as the theory of the heavens, the equinox, solstice, and courses of the stars. »
« From astronomy we find the east, west, south, and north, as well as the theory of the heavens, the equinox, solstice, and courses of the stars. »
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Roman Architect & Engineer ~80-25 BCE)
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Roman Architect & Engineer ~80-25 BCE)
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W.E.B. Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois
« The object of this new American industrial empire, so far as that object was conscious and normative, was not national well-being, but the individual gain of the associated and corporate monarchs. ... The uplift and well-being of the mass of men, of the cohorts of common labor, was not its ideal or excuse. Profit, income, uncontrolled power in My Business for My Property and for Me—this was the aim and method of the new monarchial dictatorship that displaced democracy in the United States in 1876. »
« The object of this new American industrial empire, so far as that object was conscious and normative, was not national well-being, but the individual gain of the associated and corporate monarchs. ... The uplift and well-being of the mass of men, of the cohorts of common labor, was not its ideal or excuse. Profit, income, uncontrolled power in My Business for My Property and for Me—this was the aim and method of the new monarchial dictatorship that displaced democracy in the United States in 1876. »
- W.E.B. Du Bois (American Civil Rights Acitivist, Educator, & Author 1868-1963)
- W.E.B. Du Bois (American Civil Rights Acitivist, Educator, & Author 1868-1963)
« The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. »
« The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. »
- W.E.B. Du Bois (American Civil Rights Acitivist, Educator, & Author 1868-1963)
- W.E.B. Du Bois (American Civil Rights Acitivist, Educator, & Author 1868-1963)
« The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience. »
« The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience. »
- W.E.B. Du Bois (American Civil Rights Acitivist, Educator, & Author 1868-1963)
- W.E.B. Du Bois (American Civil Rights Acitivist, Educator, & Author 1868-1963)
« The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame. »
« The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame. »
- W.E.B. Du Bois (American Civil Rights Acitivist, Educator, & Author 1868-1963)
- W.E.B. Du Bois (American Civil Rights Acitivist, Educator, & Author 1868-1963)
« The most magnificent drama in the last thousand years of human history is the transportation of ten million human beings out of the dark beauty of their mother continent into the new-found Eldorado of the West. They descended into Hell; and in the third century they arose from the dead, in the finest effort to achieve democracy for the working millions which this world had ever seen. It was a tragedy that beggared the Greek; it was an upheaval of humanity like the Reformation and the French Revolution. Yet we are blind and led by the blind. We discern in it no part of our labor movement; no part of our industrial triumph; no part of our religious experience. Before the dumb eyes of ten generations of ten million children, it is made mockery of and spit upon; a degradation of the eternal mother; a sneer at human effort; with aspiration and art deliberately and elaborately distorted. And why? Because in a day when the human mind aspired to a science of human action, a history and psychology of the mighty effort of the mightiest century, we fell under the leadership of those who would compromise with truth in the past in order to make peace in the present and guide policy in the future. »
« The most magnificent drama in the last thousand years of human history is the transportation of ten million human beings out of the dark beauty of their mother continent into the new-found Eldorado of the West. They descended into Hell; and in the third century they arose from the dead, in the finest effort to achieve democracy for the working millions which this world had ever seen. It was a tragedy that beggared the Greek; it was an upheaval of humanity like the Reformation and the French Revolution. Yet we are blind and led by the blind. We discern in it no part of our labor movement; no part of our industrial triumph; no part of our religious experience. Before the dumb eyes of ten generations of ten million children, it is made mockery of and spit upon; a degradation of the eternal mother; a sneer at human effort; with aspiration and art deliberately and elaborately distorted. And why? Because in a day when the human mind aspired to a science of human action, a history and psychology of the mighty effort of the mightiest century, we fell under the leadership of those who would compromise with truth in the past in order to make peace in the present and guide policy in the future. »
- W.E.B. Du Bois (American Civil Rights Acitivist, Educator, & Author 1868-1963)
- W.E.B. Du Bois (American Civil Rights Acitivist, Educator, & Author 1868-1963)
« I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right. »
« I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right. »
- W.E.B. Du Bois (American Civil Rights Acitivist, Educator, & Author 1868-1963)
- W.E.B. Du Bois (American Civil Rights Acitivist, Educator, & Author 1868-1963)
« The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people. »
« The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people. »
- W.E.B. Du Bois (American Civil Rights Acitivist, Educator, & Author 1868-1963)
- W.E.B. Du Bois (American Civil Rights Acitivist, Educator, & Author 1868-1963)
« The cause of war is preparation for war. »
« The cause of war is preparation for war. »
- W.E.B. Du Bois (American Civil Rights Acitivist, Educator, & Author 1868-1963)
- W.E.B. Du Bois (American Civil Rights Acitivist, Educator, & Author 1868-1963)
« I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through Time and Opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and in the possibility of infinite development. »
« I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through Time and Opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and in the possibility of infinite development. »
- W.E.B. Du Bois (American Civil Rights Acitivist, Educator, & Author 1868-1963)
- W.E.B. Du Bois (American Civil Rights Acitivist, Educator, & Author 1868-1963)
« Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States. »
« Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States. »
- W.E.B. Du Bois (American Civil Rights Acitivist, Educator, & Author 1868-1963)
- W.E.B. Du Bois (American Civil Rights Acitivist, Educator, & Author 1868-1963)
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
« All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players:
« All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts... »
They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts... »
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
« Time's glory is to calm contending kings,
« Time's glory is to calm contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light. »
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light. »
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
« Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving. »
« Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving. »
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
« Nothing can come of nothing. »
« Nothing can come of nothing. »
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
« Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
« Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date »
And summer's lease hath all too short a date »
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
« If music be the food of love, play on. »
« If music be the food of love, play on. »
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
« To be or not to be, that is the question. »
« To be or not to be, that is the question. »
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
« Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. »
« Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. »
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
« Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
« Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true.
This above all: to thine ownself be true.
And it must follow, as the night the day,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man. »
Thou canst not then be false to any man. »
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
« The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. »
« The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. »
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
« Cry 'Havoc!,' and let slip the dogs of war. »
« Cry 'Havoc!,' and let slip the dogs of war. »
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
« As merry as the day is long. »
« As merry as the day is long. »
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
« The course of true love never did run smooth. »
« The course of true love never did run smooth. »
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
« Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
« Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. »
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. »
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
« All that glisters is not gold. »
« All that glisters is not gold. »
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
« What's in a name? That which we call a rose,
« What's in a name? That which we call a rose,
By any other name would smell as sweet. »
By any other name would smell as sweet. »
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
« Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
« Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator. »
The eyes of men without an orator. »
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
« That deep torture may be called a hell,
« That deep torture may be called a hell,
When more is felt than one hath power to tell. »
When more is felt than one hath power to tell. »
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
« What cannot be eschewed must be embraced. »
« What cannot be eschewed must be embraced. »
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
- William Shakespeare (English Poet/Playwrite 1564-1616)
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
« The chasm of sky above my head
« The chasm of sky above my head
Is Heaven's profoundest azure. No domain
Is Heaven's profoundest azure. No domain
For fickle, short-lived clouds, to occupy,
For fickle, short-lived clouds, to occupy,
Or to pass through;—but rather an abyss
Or to pass through;—but rather an abyss
In which the everlasting stars abide,
In which the everlasting stars abide,
And whose soft gloom, and boundless depth, might tempt
And whose soft gloom, and boundless depth, might tempt
The curious eye to look for them by day. »
The curious eye to look for them by day. »
- William Wordsworth (English Romantic Poet 1770-1850)
- William Wordsworth (English Romantic Poet 1770-1850)
« My heart leaps up when I behold
« My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky… »
A rainbow in the sky… »
- William Wordsworth (English Romantic Poet 1770-1850)
- William Wordsworth (English Romantic Poet 1770-1850)
« I travelled among unknown men,
« I travelled among unknown men,
In lands beyond the sea... »
In lands beyond the sea... »
- William Wordsworth (English Romantic Poet 1770-1850)
- William Wordsworth (English Romantic Poet 1770-1850)
« The eye—it cannot choose but see;
« The eye—it cannot choose but see;
we cannot bid the ear be still;
we cannot bid the ear be still;
our bodies feel, where'er they be,
our bodies feel, where'er they be,
against or with our will. »
against or with our will. »
- William Wordsworth (English Romantic Poet 1770-1850)
- William Wordsworth (English Romantic Poet 1770-1850)
« Minds that have nothing to confer
« Minds that have nothing to confer
Find little to perceive. »
Find little to perceive. »
- William Wordsworth (English Romantic Poet 1770-1850)
- William Wordsworth (English Romantic Poet 1770-1850)
« ...poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. »
« ...poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. »
- William Wordsworth (English Romantic Poet 1770-1850)
- William Wordsworth (English Romantic Poet 1770-1850)
Willy Wonka
Willy Wonka
« If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it.
« If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it.
Anything you want to, do it; want to change the world... there's nothing to it. »
Anything you want to, do it; want to change the world... there's nothing to it. »
- Willy Wonka (Founder and Proprietor of the Wonka Chocolate Factory ca. 1964)
- Willy Wonka (Founder and Proprietor of the Wonka Chocolate Factory ca. 1964)
« There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination.
« There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination.
Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be. »
Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be. »
- Willy Wonka (Founder and Proprietor of the Wonka Chocolate Factory ca. 1964)
- Willy Wonka (Founder and Proprietor of the Wonka Chocolate Factory ca. 1964)
« A little nonsense now and then
« A little nonsense now and then
Is relished by the wisest men. »
Is relished by the wisest men. »
- Willy Wonka (Founder and Proprietor of the Wonka Chocolate Factory ca. 1964)
- Willy Wonka (Founder and Proprietor of the Wonka Chocolate Factory ca. 1964)
« If the good Lord had intended us to walk, he wouldn't have invented roller skates. »
« If the good Lord had intended us to walk, he wouldn't have invented roller skates. »
- Willy Wonka (Founder and Proprietor of the Wonka Chocolate Factory ca. 1964)
- Willy Wonka (Founder and Proprietor of the Wonka Chocolate Factory ca. 1964)
« There's no earthly way of knowing
« There's no earthly way of knowing
which direction we are going.
which direction we are going.
There's no knowing where we're rowing,
There's no knowing where we're rowing,
or which way the river's flowing.
or which way the river's flowing.
Is it raining? Is it snowing?
Is it raining? Is it snowing?
Is a hurricane a-blowing?
Is a hurricane a-blowing?
Not a speck of light is showing,
Not a speck of light is showing,
so the danger must be growing.
so the danger must be growing.
Are the fires of hell a-glowing?
Are the fires of hell a-glowing?
Is the grisly reaper mowing?!
Is the grisly reaper mowing?!
Yes! The danger must be growing,
Yes! The danger must be growing,
for the rowers keep on rowing.
for the rowers keep on rowing.
And they're certainly not showing...
And they're certainly not showing...
any signs that they are slowing! »
any signs that they are slowing! »
- Willy Wonka (Founder and Proprietor of the Wonka Chocolate Factory ca. 1964)
- Willy Wonka (Founder and Proprietor of the Wonka Chocolate Factory ca. 1964)
Song & Poetry
Song & Poetry
« Bridegroom, dear to my heart,
« Bridegroom, dear to my heart,
Goodly is your beauty, honeysweet,
Goodly is your beauty, honeysweet,
Lion, dear to my heart,
Goodly is your beauty, honeysweet.»
Lion, dear to my heart,
Goodly is your beauty, honeysweet.»
- Istanbul #2461 (Sumerian Clay Tablet From Turkey 2037-2029 BCE)
NOTE: This is the oldest text identafiable as a poetry in recorded history.
- Istanbul #2461 (Sumerian Clay Tablet From Turkey 2037-2029 BCE)
NOTE: This is the oldest text identafiable as a poetry in recorded history.
The Paradox of Time
The Paradox of Time
« Time goes, you say? Ah no!
« Time goes, you say? Ah no!
Alas, Time stays, we go;
Alas, Time stays, we go;
Or else, were this not so,
Or else, were this not so,
What need to chain the hours,
What need to chain the hours,
For Youth were always ours?
For Youth were always ours?
Time goes, you say?-ah no!
Time goes, you say?-ah no!
Ours is the eyes' deceit
Ours is the eyes' deceit
Of men whose flying feet
Of men whose flying feet
Lead through some landscape low;
Lead through some landscape low;
We pass, and think we see
We pass, and think we see
The earth's fixed surface flee:-
The earth's fixed surface flee:-
Alas, Time stays,-we go!
Alas, Time stays,-we go!
Once in the days of old,
Once in the days of old,
Your locks were curling gold,
Your locks were curling gold,
And mine had shamed the crow.
And mine had shamed the crow.
Now, in the self-same stage,
Now, in the self-same stage,
We've reached the silver age;
We've reached the silver age;
Time goes, you say?-ah no!
Time goes, you say?-ah no!
Once, when my voice was strong,
Once, when my voice was strong,
I filled the woods with song
I filled the woods with song
To praise your 'rose' and 'snow';
To praise your 'rose' and 'snow';
My bird, that sang, is dead;
My bird, that sang, is dead;
Where are your roses fled?
Where are your roses fled?
Alas, Time stays,-we go!
Alas, Time stays,-we go!
See, in what traversed ways,
See, in what traversed ways,
What backward Fate delays
What backward Fate delays
The hopes we used to know;
The hopes we used to know;
Where are our old desires?-
Where are our old desires?-
Ah, where those vanished fires?
Ah, where those vanished fires?
Time goes, you say?-ah no!
Time goes, you say?-ah no!
How far, how far, O Sweet,
How far, how far, O Sweet,
The past behind our feet
The past behind our feet
Lies in the even-glow!
Lies in the even-glow!
Now, on the forward way,
Now, on the forward way,
Let us fold hands, and pray;
Let us fold hands, and pray;
Alas, Time stays,-we go! »
Alas, Time stays,-we go! »
- Henry Austin Dobson (English Poet 1840-1921)
- Henry Austin Dobson (English Poet 1840-1921)
David Bowie
David Bowie
« ...We could steal time just for one day
« ...We could steal time just for one day
We can be heroes for ever and ever... »
We can be heroes for ever and ever... »
- David Bowie (English Singer/Songwriter 1947-2016) from "Heroes"
- David Bowie (English Singer/Songwriter 1947-2016) from "Heroes"
« ...Though I've flown one hundred thousand miles
« ...Though I've flown one hundred thousand miles
I'm feeling very still... »
I'm feeling very still... »
- David Bowie (English Singer/Songwriter 1947-2016) from "Space Oddity"
- David Bowie (English Singer/Songwriter 1947-2016) from "Space Oddity"
« ...Take a look at the lawman
« ...Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy... »
Beating up the wrong guy... »
- David Bowie (English Singer/Songwriter 1947-2016) from "Life on Mars"
- David Bowie (English Singer/Songwriter 1947-2016) from "Life on Mars"
« ...Is there life on Mars?... »
« ...Is there life on Mars?... »
- David Bowie (English Singer/Songwriter 1947-2016) from "Life on Mars"
- David Bowie (English Singer/Songwriter 1947-2016) from "Life on Mars"
« ...It's on America's tortured brow
« ...It's on America's tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow... »
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow... »
- David Bowie (English Singer/Songwriter 1947-2016) from "Life on Mars"
- David Bowie (English Singer/Songwriter 1947-2016) from "Life on Mars"
« ...Pressure pushin' down on me...
These are the days it never rains but it pours... »
« ...Pressure pushin' down on me...
These are the days it never rains but it pours... »
- David Bowie (English Singer/Songwriter 1947-2016) from "Under Pressure"
- David Bowie (English Singer/Songwriter 1947-2016) from "Under Pressure"
« ... Can't we give ourselves one more chance?
« ... Can't we give ourselves one more chance?
Why can't we give love that one more chance?...
Why can't we give love that one more chance?...
'Cause love's such an old-fashioned word
'Cause love's such an old-fashioned word
And love dares you to care for
And love dares you to care for
The people on the edge of the night
The people on the edge of the night
And love dares you to change our way of
And love dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves... »
Caring about ourselves... »
- David Bowie (English Singer/Songwriter 1947-2016) from "Under Pressure"
- David Bowie (English Singer/Songwriter 1947-2016) from "Under Pressure"
« ...Take a look at the lawman
« ...Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy... »
Beating up the wrong guy... »
- David Bowie (English Singer/Songwriter 1947-2016) from "Life on Mars"
- David Bowie (English Singer/Songwriter 1947-2016) from "Life on Mars"
Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury
« Is this the real life?
« Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landside,
Caught in a landside,
No escape from reality
No escape from reality
Open your eyes,
Open your eyes,
Look up to the skies and see... »
Look up to the skies and see... »
- Frederick Mercury (English Singer/Songwriter 1946-1991) from "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- Frederick Mercury (English Singer/Songwriter 1946-1991) from "Bohemian Rhapsody"
« ...I'm a rocket ship on my way to Mars
« ...I'm a rocket ship on my way to Mars
On a collision course
On a collision course
I am a satellite, I'm out of control... »
I am a satellite, I'm out of control... »
- Frederick Mercury (English Singer/Songwriter 1946-1991)
- Frederick Mercury (English Singer/Songwriter 1946-1991)
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Martin Farquhar Tupper
« Open the casement, and up with the Sun!
« Open the casement, and up with the Sun!
His gallant journey is just begun;
His gallant journey is just begun;
Over the hills his chariot is roll'd,
Over the hills his chariot is roll'd,
Banner'd with glory, and burnish'd with gold,—
Banner'd with glory, and burnish'd with gold,—
Over the hills he comes sublime,
Over the hills he comes sublime,
Bridegroom of Earth, and brother of Time! »
Bridegroom of Earth, and brother of Time! »
- Martin Farquhar Tupper (English Poet & Philosopher 1810-1880)
- Martin Farquhar Tupper (English Poet & Philosopher 1810-1880)
Sarah Bareilles
Sarah Bareilles
« Wait until you see
« Wait until you see
How mighty the truth can be
How mighty the truth can be
Like an ocean of light
Like an ocean of light
It's a sky filled with fireflies »
It's a sky filled with fireflies »
- Sarah Bareilles (American Singer/Songwriter 1979-present) from "Wicked Love"
- Sarah Bareilles (American Singer/Songwriter 1979-present) from "Wicked Love"
« Don't stop
« Don't stop
Trying to find me here amidst the chaos »
Trying to find me here amidst the chaos »
- Sarah Bareilles (American Singer/Songwriter 1979-present) from "Orpheus"
- Sarah Bareilles (American Singer/Songwriter 1979-present) from "Orpheus"
« ...it has no name
« ...it has no name
No guarantee
No guarantee
It's just the promise of a day
It's just the promise of a day
I know that some may never see
I know that some may never see
But that's enough... »
But that's enough... »
- Sarah Bareilles (American Singer/Songwriter 1979-present) from "Orpheus"
- Sarah Bareilles (American Singer/Songwriter 1979-present) from "Orpheus"
« ...The weight of all the world
« ...The weight of all the world
Can blind me to its beauty... »
Can blind me to its beauty... »
- Sarah Bareilles (American Singer/Songwriter 1979-present) from "Someone Whoe Loves Me"
- Sarah Bareilles (American Singer/Songwriter 1979-present) from "Someone Whoe Loves Me"
« Tides are changing on a dime
« Tides are changing on a dime
And I'm just trying
And I'm just trying
To keep my head above the water... »
To keep my head above the water... »
- Sarah Bareilles (American Singer/Songwriter 1979-present) from "Someone Whoe Loves Me"
- Sarah Bareilles (American Singer/Songwriter 1979-present) from "Someone Whoe Loves Me"
« ...The skies are clear
« ...The skies are clear
But storms are always coming... »
But storms are always coming... »
- Sarah Bareilles (American Singer/Songwriter 1979-present) from "Someone Whoe Loves Me"
- Sarah Bareilles (American Singer/Songwriter 1979-present) from "Someone Whoe Loves Me"
« ...Your gift to me
« ...Your gift to me
Is just to be... »
Is just to be... »
- Sarah Bareilles (American Singer/Songwriter 1979-present) from "Someone Whoe Loves Me"
- Sarah Bareilles (American Singer/Songwriter 1979-present) from "Someone Whoe Loves Me"
« ...Baptized by truth, we will reap what we sow... »
« ...Baptized by truth, we will reap what we sow... »
- Sarah Bareilles (American Singer/Songwriter 1979-present) co-written by Lori McKenna, from "Saint Honesty"
- Sarah Bareilles (American Singer/Songwriter 1979-present) co-written by Lori McKenna, from "Saint Honesty"
Miscellaneous Resources
Miscellaneous Resources
Important People
Ansel Adams
Timothy O'Sullivan
Minor White
Eadweard Muybridge*
Johann Heinrich Schulze
Thomas Wedgwood
Humphry Davy
Hans Lipperhey
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Trevor Paglen
Berenice Abbott
Marvin Heiferman
Henri Cartier Bresson
El Lissitzky
Traceroute (film)
Things
Chronophotography
Janssen revolver
Chronophotographic gun
Zoopraxiscope
Documents
https://shimamurapubs.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/2002_shimamura-muybridge.pdf
https://thejns.org/focus/view/journals/neurosurg-focus/39/1/article-pE4.xml
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/world-without-clouds
https://digitale.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/vd18/content/pageview/4921254
https://www.scribd.com/document/503456564/doble-rick-history-of-light-and-photography-libre
http://www.historiccamera.com/historiccameras/historiccameras4.html
https://shimamurapubs.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/2002_shimamura-muybridge.pdf
https://www.photopedagogy.com/scienceandphotography.html
https://www.icp.org/exhibitions/henri-cartier-bresson-the-decisive-moment
https://rps.org/regions/north-wales/quotes/
https://www.icp.org/exhibitions/henri-cartier-bresson-the-decisive-moment
https://artsintegration.com/2018/11/30/intersection-science-art-photography/
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-020-03436-5/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/us/18bcmuybridge.html
http://www.artnet.com/artists/eadweard-muybridge/
https://www.doi.gov/blog/10-john-muir-quotes-that-ll-inspire-you-explore-america-s-great-outdoors
http://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2019_01_14_archive.html
LIGHTFASTNESS & ARCHIVING
https://www.highres.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Aardenburg-Imaging-Fuji-Crystsal-Archive-Test.pdf
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/26/obituaries/clyde-t-holliday-70-filmed-earth-features.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenarianism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Road_(1926_film_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Le_Prince
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kennedy_Dickson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biograph_Company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Le_Prince#LePrince_Cine_Camera-Projector_types
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Lutyens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Patents_Company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadweard_Muybridge
http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/ucla/mss/muyb1979.pdf
https://lubnatrends.com/eadweard-muybridge-the-photographer-who-froze-time/
https://shimamurapubs.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/2002_shimamura-muybridge.pdf