„Above all, do not allow yourself to be bewitched by the evil charms of geometry.“
Sur-tout ne vous laissez point ensorceler par les attraits diaboliques de la géométrie.
Lettres Spirituelles, no. 59, cited from Correspondance de Fénelon, archevêque de Cambrai (Paris: Ferra Jeune, 1827) vol. 5, p. 514; translation from Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot (eds.) A History of Women in the West (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994) vol. 3, p. 405.Œuvres complètes De François de Salignac De La Mothe Fénélon. TOME V Briand 1810 LETTRE CXLII (142) p.106.
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Sur-tout ne vous laissez point ensorceler par les attraits diaboliques de la géométrie.
Francois Fénelon4
französischer Geistlicher und Schriftsteller 1651 - 1715Ähnliche Zitate
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„Do not allow yourself to be damaged by yourself.“
— Steve Maraboli 1975
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— Benjamin Peirce American mathematician 1809 - 1880
Ben Yamen's Song of Geometry (1853)
Kontext: Ascend with me above the dust, above the cloud, to the realms of the higher geometry, where the heavens are never clouded; where there is no impure vapour, and no delusive or imperfect observation, where the new truths are already arisen, while they are yet dimly dawning on the world below; where the earth is a little planet; where the sun has dwindled to a star; where all the stars are lost in the Milky Way to which they belong; where the Milky Way is seen floating through space like any other nebula; where the whole great girdle of nebulae has diminished to an atom and has become as readily and completely submissive to the pen of the geometer, and the slave of his formula, as the single drop, which falls from the clouds, instinct with all the forces of the material world.
„Above all things, respect yourself.“
— Pythagoras ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher -585 - -495 v.Chr
Variant translations:
Respect yourself above all.
As quoted in Divine Harmony: The Life and Teachings of Pythagoras http://www.sacredscience.com/pythagoras.htm by John Strohmeier and Peter Westbrook. (1999)
Above all things reverence thy self.
Above all things, respect yourself.
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
The Golden Verses
Variante: Above all things reverence thy Self.
„Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things.“
— Rainer Maria Rilke, buch Briefe an einen jungen Dichter
Quelle: Letters to a Young Poet
„Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.“
— David Levithan American author and editor 1972
Quelle: Two Boys Kissing
— Nigel Cumberland British author and leadership coach 1967
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Quelle: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
— Leo Tolstoy, A Letter to a Hindu
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A Letter to a Hindu (1908)
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— Gustave Flaubert French writer (1821–1880) 1821 - 1880
— Ayn Rand Russian-American novelist and philosopher 1905 - 1982
Question period following Lecture 11 of Leonard Peikoff's series "The Philosophy of Objectivism," 1976
— Ray Comfort New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist 1949
quite simply, because if He punished it immediately I’m sure we would have been snuffed out the moment we were born. God says our very thoughts are an abomination to him. If He punished sin immediately, there would be no one left.
Cults, Sects and Questions (c. 1979)
— Pythagoras ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher -585 - -495 v.Chr
As quoted in Divine Harmony: The Life and Teachings of Pythagoras by John Strohmeier and Peter Westbrook. (1999)
The Golden Verses
Kontext: Many words befall men, mean and noble alike; do not be astonished by them, nor allow yourself to be constrained.
If a lie is told, bear with it gently.
But whatever I tell you, let it be done completely.
Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.
„Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;
But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.“
— John Webster, The White Devil
Act V, scene vi.
The White Devil (1612)
„Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.“
— Richard Bach American spiritual writer 1936
„Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.“
— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910
