„A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.“
Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
Kontext: A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself. A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.
José Martí1
kubanischer Schriftsteller und Nationalheld 1853 - 1895Ähnliche Zitate
— Salvador Dalí Spanish artist 1904 - 1989
Quelle: Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1961 - 1970, Diary of a Genius (1964), p. 79
— Rachel Carson American marine biologist and conservationist 1907 - 1964
Quelle: The Sense of Wonder (1965), p. 55 and Back Cover
„Who lives without folly is not as wise as he thinks.“
— François de La Rochefoucauld, buch Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.
Maxim 209.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
— Ray Comfort New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist 1949
The most eloquent of philosophers sits at His feet and marvels at both His words and His life. To those who disagree, I would simply challenge you to read the Gospel of John, and see for yourself. Never did any man speak like this Man.
Quelle: You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think (2009)
— Miguel de Unamuno 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher 1864 - 1936
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), X : Religion, the Mythology of the Beyond and the Apocatastasis
„No wonder scoundrels find refuge in patriotism; it offers them immunity from criticism.“
— Bill Moyers American journalist 1934
On polls showing that many Americans would support a restriction of free speech especially if against speech held to be unpatriotic, in a speech to the Society of Professional Journalists (11 September 2004)
„Woever he was who first depicted Amor as a boy, don’t you think it was a wonderful touch? He was the first to see that lovers live without sense.“
Quicumque ille fuit, puerum qui pinxit Amorem
nonne putas miras hunc habuisse manus?
is primum vidit sine sensu vivere amantes
— Propertius Latin elegiac poet -47 - -14 v.Chr
II, xii, 1-3; translation by A. S. Kline
Elegies
— Paramahansa Yogananda Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship 1893 - 1952
Songs of the Soul by Paramahansa Yogananda, Quotes drawn from the poem "What is Love?"
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton English statesman and poet 1831 - 1891
Part i, canto ii.
Lucile (1860)
„Why does a man live?
-In order to think about it…“
— Erich Maria Remarque German novelist 1898 - 1970
Quelle: Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
— Peter Lorre Austrian actor 1904 - 1964
Movie Villain Peter Lorre http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-peter-lorre-19640324-story.html
„Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, buch Schuld und Sühne
Crime and Punishment (1866)
„A man who does not have something for which he is willing to die is not fit to live.“
— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968
— Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution
Quelle: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
„We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.“
Inde fit ut raro, qui se vixisse beatum
dicat et exacto contentus tempore vita
cedat uti conviva satur, reperire queamus.
— Horace, buch Satires
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
„What about what he lives for, Squire? Isn't that the true measure of a man, what he lives for?“
— Arthur M. Jolly American writer 1969
Jim Hawkins, Act II, Scene 6
Long Joan Silver (2013)
