„Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.“
Paul Valéry3
französischer Philosoph, Essayist, Schriftsteller und Lyr... 1871 - 1945Ähnliche Zitate
„Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.“
— John Keats English Romantic poet 1795 - 1821
„People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.“
— Chinua Achebe, There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
„We are marching in a compact group along a precipitous and difficult path, firmly holding each other by the hand. We are surrounded on all sides by enemies and are under their almost constant fire. We have combined voluntarily, precisely for the purpose of fighting the enemy, and not to retreat into the adjacent marsh, the inhabitants of which, from the very outset, have reproached us with having separated ourselves into a an exclusive group and with having chosen the path of struggle instead of the path of conciliation.“
— Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?
Chapter One, A. "What is "Freedom of Criticism"?", Essential Works of Lenin (1966)
„He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.“
— Aristotle Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy -384 - -322 v.Chr
„When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.“
— Jimmy Carter American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981) 1924
„It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.“
— Vincent Van Gogh Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853 - 1890
„It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.“
— Arthur Conan Doyle Scottish physician and author 1859 - 1930
„I have good reason to be content,
for thank God I can read and
perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.“
— John Keats English Romantic poet 1795 - 1821
„if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.“
— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963
„Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry... no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.“
— Thomas Hobbes English philosopher, born 1588 1588 - 1679
„The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.“
— Swami Vivekananda Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher 1863 - 1902
„Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies. At the end all his disciples deserted him. On the Cross he was utterly alone, surrounded by evildoers and mockers. For this cause he had come, to bring peace to the enemies of God. So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work. 'The kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing who would ever have been spared' (Luther).“
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
„I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation, where they won´t be judged by the color of their skin, but by the contente of their character.-->“
— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968
