„Fools -- for their thoughts are not well-considered who suppose that not-being exists or that anything dies and is wholly annihilated.“
fr. 11
On Nature
Original: (el) νήπιοι· οὐ γάρ σφιν δολιχόφρονές εἰσι μέριμναι, οἵ δὴ γίγνεσθαι πάρος οὐκ ἐὸν ἐλπίζουσιν ἤ τι καταθνήισκειν τε καὶ ἐξόλλυσθαι ἁπάντηι.
Original
νήπιοι· οὐ γάρ σφιν δολιχόφρονές εἰσι μέριμναι, οἵ δὴ γίγνεσθαι πάρος οὐκ ἐὸν ἐλπίζουσιν ἤ τι καταθνήισκειν τε καὶ ἐξόλλυσθαι ἁπάντηι.
Empedoklés2
antiker griechischer Philosoph und Politiker -490 - -430 v.ChrÄhnliche Zitate
— Johann Heinrich Lambert German mathematician, physicist and astronomer 1728 - 1777
The System of the World (1800)
„Consider the source… Don't be a fool by listening to a fool.“
— Sylvester Stallone American actor, screenwriter, and film director 1946
Quelle: Sly Moves: My Proven Program to Lose Weight, Build Strength, Gain Will Power, and Live your Dream
„Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.“
— Douglas Adams English writer and humorist 1952 - 2001
— Ambrose Bierce American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist 1842 - 1914
Quelle: Epigrams, p. 345
— Arnold Bennett English novelist 1867 - 1931
The Journals of Arnold Bennett, ed. Newman Flower (pub. Cassell, 1932)
„Either fraternity is spontaneous, or it does not exist. To decree it is to annihilate it.“
— Frédéric Bastiat French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly 1801 - 1850
Quelle: Justice and Fraternity (1848), p. 312
Kontext: Either fraternity is spontaneous, or it does not exist. To decree it is to annihilate it. The law can indeed force men to remain just; in vain would it try to force them to be self-sacrificing.
„I suppose […] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.“
— Anne Bishop American fiction writer 1955
Quelle: Heir to the Shadows
— Sara Bareilles American pop rock singer-songwriter and pianist 1979
"King of Anything"
Lyrics, Kaleidoscope Heart (2009)
— Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States of America 1946
In April 2006, about women's disaproval of one-night stands. As quoted in Trump on Clinton in 2008: ‘She'd make a good president' https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-on-clinton-in-2008-shed-make-a-good-president-2016-07-11 (July 11, 2016) by Michael Rothfield and Mark Maremont, MarketWatch.
2000s
— John Brooks (writer) American writer 1920 - 1993
Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
