„The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.“
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg German scientist, satirist 1742 - 1799
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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook K (1789-1793)
„The idle mind knows not what it wants.“
As quoted by Aulus Gellius in Noctes Atticae (Attic Nights), Book XIX, Chapter X
Iphigenia
Original: (la) Otioso in otio animus nescit quid velit.
Original
Otioso in otio animus nescit quid velit.
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„Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.“
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield British statesman and man of letters 1694 - 1773
20 July 1749
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
— Michelangelo Antonioni Italian film director and screenwriter 1912 - 2007
Encountering Directors interview (1969)
Kontext: When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film. I never think ahead of the shot I'm going to make the following day because if I did, I'd only produce a bad imitation of the original image in my mind. So what you see on the screen doesn't represent my exact meaning, but only my possibilities of expression, with all the limitations implied in that phrase. Perhaps the scene reveals my incapacity to do better; perhaps I felt subconsciously ironic toward it. But it is on film; the rest is up to you.
„There is this first benefit from myths, that we have to search and do not have our minds idle.“
— Sallustius Roman philosopher and writer
III. Concerning myths; that they are divine, and why.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
Kontext: There is this first benefit from myths, that we have to search and do not have our minds idle.
That the myths are divine can be seen from those who have used them. Myths have been used by inspired poets, by the best of philosophers, by those who established the mysteries, and by the Gods themselves in oracles. But why the myths are divine it is the duty of philosophy to inquire. Since all existing things rejoice in that which is like them and reject that which is unlike, the stories about the Gods ought to be like the Gods, so that they may both be worthy of the divine essence and make the Gods well disposed to those who speak of them: which could only be done by means of myths.
— Robert G. Ingersoll Union United States Army officer 1833 - 1899
"The Brooklyn Divines." Brooklyn Union (Brooklyn, NY), 1883.
„People know what they want because they know what other people want.“
— Theodor W. Adorno German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society 1903 - 1969
— James Agate British diarist and critic 1877 - 1947
Ego 6 (1944), p. 189, June 9, 1943.
— Robert G. Ingersoll Union United States Army officer 1833 - 1899
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
„I don't know what I want, but I know what I don't want“
— Woody Allen American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician 1935
„It's important to know what you don't want, but it's vital to know what you DO want.“
— Steve Maraboli 1975
Quelle: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 152
— Peter Hitchens, buch The Rage Against God
2016
Peter Hitchens: The Rage Against God
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEJ_dtN0QO8
On Changing One's Mind
— Christian D. Larson Prolific author of metaphysical and New Thought books 1874 - 1962
Quelle: Your Forces and How to Use Them (1912), p. 284
