Jan Christiaan Smuts Zitate

Jan Christiaan Smuts war ein südafrikanischer Staatsmann, Philosoph, burischer General und britischer Feldmarschall. Von 1919 bis 1924 und von 1939 bis 1948 war er Premierminister der Südafrikanischen Union. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. Mai 1870 – 11. September 1950
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„Wir müssen zur Veränderlichkeit und zur Formarbeit der Natur und der Erfahrung zurückkehren, um die Begriffe der Wirklichkeit zu finden. […] Ein »Begriff« ist nicht bloß ein helles, klares Zentrum, er ist vielmehr eine Wolke aus Bedeutung oder Einfluss von kleineren und größeren Dimensionen umgeben, in der die Heiligkeit abnimmt, bis sie ganz verschwindet.“

Jan Christiaan Smuts

Holism and Evolution, 1926 <br class="br">Original: &quot;We have to return to the fluidity and plasticity of nature and experience in order to find the concepts of reality. When we do this we find that round every luminous point in experience there is a penumbra, a gradual shading off into haziness and obscurity. A &quot;concept&quot; is not merely its clear luminous centre, but embraces a surrounding sphere of meaning or influence of smaller or larger dimensions, in which the luminosity tails off and grows fainter until it disappears.&quot; - Holism and Evolution. 2nd edition. London 1927. p. 17 archive.org http://archive.org/stream/holismandevoluti032439mbp#page/n35/mode/2up

Jan Christiaan Smuts: Zitate auf Englisch

“… the Jameson Raid was the real declaration of war.”

Jan Smuts

Smuts on the Second Boer War, as cited in Antony Lentin, 2010, Jan Smuts – Man of courage and vision ISBN 978-1-86842-390-3

“Just as we preach a "black peril" so they will begin to speak of a "white peril" and of the hostility the white men have toward them.”

Jan Smuts

In June 1947, addressing the head committee of the United Party in Transvaal, cited by Tom MacDonald (1948) in Jan Hofmeyr: Heir to Smuts, p. 219

“The Mountain is not merely something eternally sublime. It has a great historical and spiritual meaning for us … From it came the Law, from it came the Gospel in the Sermon on the Mount. We may truly say that the highest religion is the Religion of the Mountain.”

Jan Smuts

When he unveiled the Mountain Club War Memorial at Maclear's Beacon on the summit of Table Mountain (1923), as cited by Alan Paton in his final essay, A Literary Remembrance, published posthumously in TIME, 25 April 1988, p. 106

“If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nation’s mind. If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the nation’s needs.”

Jan Smuts

To Princess Frederica of Greece, as cited by Doug Lennox in Now You Know Royalty, Monarchies in Action, p. 57

“It is the cleanest, neatest, most sudden and spectacular victory of the war, and in size is quite comparable to the German defeat before Stalingrad.”

Jan Smuts

At the conclusion of the North African Campaign in May 1943, as quoted by W. K. Hancock in SMUTS 2: The Fields of Force 1919-1950, p. 380

“History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.”

Jan Smuts

Smuts to Alfred Milner (1905), as cited in Antony Lentin, 2010, Jan Smuts – Man of courage and vision ISBN 978-1-86842-390-3

“We do not want new orders. What the world wants is an old order of 2,000 years ago – the order of the man of Galilee.”

Jan Smuts

On "a post-war new world order" envisaged by the Allies during World War II, as cited in Antony Lentin, 2010, Jan Smuts – Man of courage and vision, p. 144. ISBN 978-1-86842-390-3

“Some of you will not come back. Some of you will come back maimed. Those of you who do come back will come back changed men. That is war!”

Jan Smuts

When seeing off young South Africans in World War II, as cited in Antony Lentin, 2010, Jan Smuts – Man of courage and vision, p. 138. ISBN 978-1-86842-390-3

“The idea that the Natives must all be removed and confined in their own kraals is in my opinion the greatest nonsense I have ever heard.”

Jan Smuts

In August 1946, as quoted by James Barber in South Africa in the Twentieth Century, p. 134

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