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Paul Dirac Foto

“If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand.”

Paul Dirac (1902–1984) theoretical physicist

As quoted in The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom (2009) by Graham Farmelo, p. 435
Kontext: If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand. Again and again, when I have been at a loss how to proceed, I have just had to wait until I have felt the mathematics led me by the hand. It has led me along an unexpected path, a path where new vistas open up, a path leading to new territory, where one can set up a base of operations, from which one can survey the surroundings and plan future progress.

Mikhail Lermontov Foto

“Women love only those whom they do not know!”

Mikhail Lermontov buch Ein Held unserer Zeit

A Hero of Our Time (1840; rev. 1841)

Mikhail Lermontov Foto
Mahatma Gandhi Foto

“Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.”

Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India

Basic Education (1951) p. 89
Posthumous publications (1950s and later)
Kontext: Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth.

Randy Pausch Foto
Herodotus Foto
Jean Cocteau Foto

“Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.”
Alles, was man im Leben tut, sogar lieben, taucht auf in einem Schnellzug, der dem Tod entgegenrast. Wenn man Opium raucht, holt einen das aus diesem Zug, während er sich immer noch bewegt. Es kommt vielmehr darauf an, sich mit etwas anderem zu befassen, als mit dem Leben oder Tod.

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker

Opium (1929)

H.L. Mencken Foto

“A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.”
Ein Mensch, der lachen kann, und sei es nur über sich selbst, ist nie wirklich unglücklich.

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
Kontext: Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Foto
Albert Schweitzer Foto
Benjamin Franklin Foto

“Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they’re 75.”
Die meisten Menschen sterben mit 25 Jahren und werden erst begraben, wenn sie 75 sind.

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
Billy Wilder Foto

“You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.”
Du musst einen Traum haben, damit du morgens aufstehst.

Billy Wilder (1906–2002) American filmmaker
Joanne K. Rowling Foto

“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”
Die Vorstellungskraft ist nicht nur die einzigartige menschliche Fähigkeit, sich das vorzustellen, was nicht existiert, und damit die Quelle aller Erfindungen und Innovationen. In ihrer wohl transformativsten und aufschlussreichsten Eigenschaft ist sie die Kraft, die uns befähigt, uns in Menschen einzufühlen, deren Erfahrungen wir nie geteilt haben.

Joanne K. Rowling (1965) British novelist, author of the Harry Potter series

Harvard address (2008)

Jacque Fresco Foto
Max Planck Foto

“Truth never triumphs—its opponents just die out.”
Die Wahrheit triumphiert nie, ihre Gegner sterben nur aus.

Max Planck (1858–1947) German theoretical physicist

Variante: Science advances one funeral at a time.

Benjamin Disraeli Foto

“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.”

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Khalil Gibran Foto
Franz Liszt Foto
Confucius Foto
Daisaku Ikeda Foto
Barack Obama Foto
Sojourner Truth Foto

“Truth is powerful and it prevails.”

Sojourner Truth (1797–1883) African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury Foto

“A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.”

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834–1913) British banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath
Albert Einstein Foto
A.A. Milne Foto
Douglas Adams Foto
Arthur Rubinstein Foto
Mwanandeke Kindembo Foto
Mwanandeke Kindembo Foto
Mwanandeke Kindembo Foto
Mwanandeke Kindembo Foto
George Orwell Foto
George Orwell Foto

“But it takes a war to make map-reading popular.”

George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist

Quelle: "As I Please," Tribune (11 February 1944)

Audrey Hepburn Foto
Pavel Durov Foto

“Every one of us is going to die eventually, but we as a species will stick around for a while. That’s why I think accumulating money, fame or power is irrelevant. Serving humanity is the only thing that really matters in the long run.”

Pavel Durov (1984) Russian entrepreneur

" Why WhatsApp Will Never Be Secure https://telegra.ph/Why-WhatsApp-Will-Never-Be-Secure-05-15" 2019-05-15
In reference to his expatriation from Russia after refusing to breach the privacy of VK users for the government

Teal Swan Foto
Erich Maria Remarque Foto

“They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest, most comforting thing there is anywhere: they are the voices of my comrades.”
Sie bedeuten mir mehr als das Leben, diese Stimmen, sie sind mehr als Mütterlichkeit und mehr als Furcht; es sind die stärksten, tröstlichsten Dinge, die irgendwo sind: Es sind die Stimmen meiner Kameraden.

Erich Maria Remarque buch Im Westen nichts Neues

Quelle: All Quiet on the Western Front

Oscar Wilde Foto

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
Jeder Heilige hat eine Vergangenheit und jeder Sünder hat eine Zukunft.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Oscar Wilde Foto

“Everything popular is wrong.”
Alles Populäre ist falsch.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Robert Fulghum Foto

“Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”

Robert Fulghum (1937) American writer

As quoted in Reflections for Tending the Sacred Garden (2003) by Bonita Jean Zimmer, p. 182

Terry Pratchett Foto

“In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”
In alten Zeiten wurden Katzen als Götter verehrt; das haben sie nicht vergessen.

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Pratchett is credited as author of this, as quoted in Ghost Cats : Human Encounters with Feline Spirits (2007) by Dusty Rainbolt, p. 7, and in Chicken Soup for the Soul : What I Learned from the Cat (2009) by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Amy Newmark
Quote attributed to unknown author, in Chicken Soup for the Soul Celebrates Cats : And the People Who Love Them (2004) by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Sharon J. Wohlmuth, p. 1
General sources
Variante: In ancient times, cats were worshiped as gods. They have never forgotten this.

Charles Bukowski Foto

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
Manchmal kletterst du morgens aus dem Bett und denkst, ich schaffe es nicht, aber du lachst innerlich - denkst daran, wie oft du dich so gefühlt hast.

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Henry James Foto

“Don't mind anything anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.”
Kümmern Sie sich nicht um das, was Ihnen jemand über andere erzählt. Beurteilen Sie jeden und alles selber.

Henry James buch The Portrait of a Lady

Quelle: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XXIII.

James Frey Foto

“There are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone.”

James Frey buch The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Quelle: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Bob Marley Foto

“Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.”
Obwohl die Straße steinig war, fühlt es sich für mich sicher gut an.

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
George Sand Foto

“We cannot tear a single page from our life, but we can throw the whole book into the fire.”
Wir können nicht eine einzige Seite aus unserem Leben herausreißen, aber wir können das ganze Buch ins Feuer werfen.

George Sand buch Mauprat

Nous ne pouvons arracher une seule page de notre vie, mais nous pouvons jeter le livre au feu.
Quelle: Mauprat, ch. 11 (1837); Matilda M. Hays (trans.) Mauprat (London: E. Churton, 1847) p. 121

Bruce Lee Foto

“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
C.G. Jung Foto

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”
Soweit wir erkennen können, besteht der einzige Zweck der menschlichen Existenz darin, ein Licht in der Dunkelheit des bloßen Seins zu entzünden.

C.G. Jung buch Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Variante: ‎"... the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Quelle: Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963), p. 326

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Foto
Oscar Wilde Foto

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
Um meine Jugend wiederzuerlangen würde ich alles tun - ausgenommen, mich zu bewegen, früh aufzustehen oder ein nützliches Glied der Gesellschaft zu werden.

Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Variante: I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Terry Pratchett Foto

“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Quelle: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Colette Foto

“Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”
Unsere perfekten Gefährten haben nie weniger als vier Füße.

Colette (1873–1954) 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi
Charles Darwin Foto

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
Wenn ich mein Leben noch einmal leben könnte, würde ich mindestens einmal pro Woche Lyrik lesen und Musik hören.

Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"

Quelle: The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

Adolf Hitler Foto

“if you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it.”
Wenn du wie Sonne scheinen willst musst du zuerst brennen.

Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
Marilyn Monroe Foto

“You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.”
Man weiß nie, wie das Leben ist, bis man es gelebt hat.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Oscar Wilde Foto

“I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”
Ich mag Männer mit Zukunft und Frauen mit Vergangenheit.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Charles Bukowski Foto

“Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.”
Manchmal muss man einfach ins Waschbecken pinkeln.

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
George Carlin Foto

“Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”
Hier ist alles, was Sie über Männer und Frauen wissen müssen: Frauen sind verrückt, Männer sind dumm. Und der Hauptgrund, warum Frauen verrückt sind, ist, dass Männer dumm sind.

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Books, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (2004)
Quelle: When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?

Johnny Depp Foto
Bob Dylan Foto

“Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain”
Hinter jeder schönen Sache steckt eine Art von Schmerz.

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Time Out of Mind (1997), Not Dark Yet

Albert Einstein Foto

“If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”
Wenn ich eine Stunde Zeit hätte, um ein Problem zu lösen, würde ich 55 Minuten damit verbringen, über das Problem nachzudenken und fünf Minuten über die Lösung

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Georgia O'Keeffe Foto

“Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) American artist

O'Keeffe's contribution (1939) to the exhibition catalogue of the show An American place (1944)
1930 - 1950
Quelle: Georgia O'Keeffe
Kontext: A flower is relatively small. Everyone has many associations with a flower - the idea of flowers. You put out your hand to touch the flower — lean forward to smell it — maybe touch it with your lips almost without thinking — or give it to someone to please them. Still — in a way — nobody sees a flower — really — it is so small — we haven't time — and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time... So I said to myself — I'll paint what I see — what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it — I will make even busy New-Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers... Well — I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower, you hung all your own associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower — and I don't.

Hannah Arendt Foto
Milan Kundera Foto

“She loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It differentiated her from the others”

Milan Kundera buch Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins

Quelle: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Ernest Hemingway Foto

“Never confuse movement with action.”
Tun Sie nicht, was Sie ehrlich nicht tun wollen. Verwechseln Sie Bewegung nicht mit Aktion.

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

As quoted by Marlene Dietrich, who added "In those five words he gave me a whole philosophy." Pt. 1, Ch. 1
Papa Hemingway (1966)
Variante: Never mistake motion for action.

Mark Twain Foto

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
Die schlimmste Einsamkeit ist, sich mit sich selbst nicht wohl zu fühlen.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Helen Keller Foto

“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world”
Wir könnten nie lernen, mutig und geduldig zu sein, wenn es nur Freude auf der Welt gäbe.

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
Friedrich Nietzsche Foto

“I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”
Ich kann nicht an einen Gott glauben, der die ganze Zeit gelobt werden will.

Friedrich Nietzsche buch Also sprach Zarathustra

Variante: I would only believe in a god who could dance.
Quelle: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Aristotle Foto

“The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”
Das Gegenmittel für fünfzig Feinde ist ein Freund.

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
George Orwell Foto

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
Macht besteht darin, den menschlichen Geist in Stücke zu reißen und ihn in neuen Formen Ihrer Wahl wieder zusammenzufügen.

George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

Leonardo Da Vinci Foto

“I love those who can smile in trouble…”
Ich liebe diejenigen, die in Schwierigkeiten lächeln können ...

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
Marcus Tullius Cicero Foto

“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
Wenn wir uns nicht schämen, es zu denken, sollten wir uns nicht schämen, es zu sagen.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Leonard Cohen Foto

“You go to Heaven once you've been to Hell”
Man geht in den Himmel, sobald man in der Hölle war.

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

Quelle: Song Paper Thin Hotel

Margaret Mead Foto

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
Zweifle nie daran, dass eine kleine Gruppe besonnener und engagierter Bürger die Welt verändern kann. Tatsächlich sind sie die Einzigen, die das jemals taten.

Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist

Quelle: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657 note: 1940s, Male and Female (1949)

Arthur C. Clarke Foto

“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
Ich bin sicher, das Universum ist voll von intelligentem Leben. Es war einfach zu intelligent, um hierher zu kommen.

Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host

IRC discussion at Scifi.com (1 November 1996) http://web.archive.org/web/20021201214228/http://www.scifi.com/transcripts/aclarke.txt with Clarke and Gentry Lee
1990s

Emile Zola Foto

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud!”
Wenn du mich fragst, was ich auf dieser Welt zu tun habe, werde ich dir als Künstler antworten: Ich bin hier, um laut zu leben!

Emile Zola (1840–1902) French writer (1840-1902)

As quoted in Writers on Writing‎ (1986) by Jon Winokur.
Variante: If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Will Durant Foto

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”
Wir sind, was wir wiederholt tun. Daher ist Herausragendes keine Handlung, sondern eine Angewohnheit.

Will Durant buch The Story of Philosophy

Variante: We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit
Quelle: The Story of Philosophy (1926), p. 87. The quoted phrases within the quotation are from the Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, 4; Book I, 7.
Kontext: Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly; 'these virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions'; we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit: 'the good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life... for as it is not one swallow or one fine day that makes a spring, so it is not one day or a short time that makes a man blessed and happy'.

Bob Marley Foto

“My feet is my only carriage.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Marcus Aurelius Foto

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
Alles, was wir hören, ist eine Meinung, keine Tatsache. Alles, was wir sehen, ist eine Perspektive, nicht die Wahrheit.

Marcus Aurelius buch Selbstbetrachtungen

Misattributed
Quelle: Cited as being from The Meditations. This quote does not exist there; although there are several other statements about everything being an opinion, none of these are connected to a sentence about perspectives.

William Blake Foto

“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
Ein Narr sieht nicht denselben Baum, den ein Weiser sieht.

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Abraham Lincoln Foto

“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
Takt ist die Fähigkeit, andere so zu beschreiben, wie sie sich selbst sehen.

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Elvis Presley Foto

“Do something worth remembering.”
Tue etwas, was es wert ist, erinnert zu werden..

Elvis Presley (1935–1977) American singer and actor
John Steinbeck Foto

“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”
Ich glaube, eine starke Frau kann stärker als ein Mann sein, besonders wenn sie Liebe in ihrem Herzen hat. Ich denke, eine liebende Frau ist unzerstörbar.

John Steinbeck buch East of Eden

Variante: My father said she was a strong woman, and I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is almost indestructible.
Quelle: East of Eden

William Shakespeare Foto

“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.”
Weinen heißt, die Tiefe der Trauer zu verringern.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

Quelle: King Henry VI, Part 3

Alfred Adler Foto

“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.”
Vertraue nur der Bewegung. Das Leben geschieht auf der Ebene von Ereignissen, nicht von Worten. Vertrauensbewegung.

Alfred Adler (1870–1937) Medical Doctor, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, Personality Theorist
Henny Youngman Foto
Eleanor Roosevelt Foto

“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.”
Schöne junge Leute sind Zufälle der Natur aber schöne alte Menschen sind Kunstwerke.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

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