„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
„The will for victory which gives a commander the strength to see a grave crisis through is something very different from Hitler's will, which in the last analysis stemmed from a belief in his own 'mission'. Such a belief makes a man impervious to reason and leads him to think that his own will can operate even beyond the limits of hard reality - whether these consist in the presence of far superior enemy forces, in the conditions of space and time, or merely in the fact that the enemy also happens to have a will of his own.“
— Erich von Manstein German general 1887 - 1973
Lost Victories, Hitler As Supreme Commander
„People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.“
— Andrew Carnegie American businessman and philanthropist 1835 - 1919
„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
„Fear is the true enemy, the only enemy.“
— Sun Tzu ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty -543 - 251 v.Chr
Attributed implicitly to Sun Tzu by "William Riker" in the episode The Last Outpost of the TV program Star Trek: The Next Generation, but no source for this quote predates the episode's airing in 1987.
„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
„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