„We derive our authority from God and the West India Company, not from the pleasure of a few ignorant subjects.“
Liberty Magazine : On complaints by frontier folks on his reforms.
Petrus Stuyvesant
niederländischer Gouverneur von Curaçao, Generaldirektor de… 1612 - 1672Ähnliche Zitate
„All these books were written by idle, unoccupied, ignorant men, the slaves of vice and filth. I wonder what it is that delights us in these books unless it be that we are attracted by indecency. Learning is not to be expected from authors who never saw even a shadow of learning. As for their story-telling, what pleasure is to be derived from the things they invent, full of lies and stupidity?“
Quos omnes libros conscripserunt homines otiosi, male feriati, imperiti, vitiis ac spurcitiae dediti, in queis miror quid delectet nisi tam nobis flagitia blandirentur. Eruditio non est exspectanda ab hominibus qui ne umbram quidem eruditionis viderant. Iam cum narrant, quae potest esse delectatio in rebus quas tam aperte et stulte confingunt?
— Juan Luis Vives Spanish philosopher 1492 - 1540
De Institutione Feminae Christianae (1523), trans. by C. Fantazzi (1996), Vol. I, p. 47.
— Thomas Aquinas Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church 1225 - 1274
in Aquinas: Selected Political Writings (Basil Blackwell: 1974), p. 183
Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard
— Eric Hoffer American philosopher 1898 - 1983
Section 113 http://books.google.com/books?id=msOwAAAAIAAJ&q=%22The+pleasure+we+derive+from+doing+favors+is+partly+in+the+feeling+it+gives+us+that+we+are+not+altogether+worthless%22&pg=PA72#v=onepage
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)
„I was astonished at the pleasure to be derived from doing good.“
— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, buch Les Liaisons dangereuses
J’ai été étonné du plaisir qu’on éprouve en faisant le bien.
Letter 21: Le Vicomte de Valmont to la Marquise de Merteuil. Trans. P.W.K. Stone (1961). http://www.cartage.org.lb/fr/themes/livreBiblioteques/Livres/Biblio(fr)/L/Lacl/Liaisonsdangereuses/lett21.htm
Les liaisons dangereuses (1782)
— Robert G. Ingersoll Union United States Army officer 1833 - 1899
Quelle: On the Gods and Other Essays
— John Adams 2nd President of the United States 1735 - 1826
1760s, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)
„Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.“
— Eckhart Tolle, buch The Power of Now
The Power of Now (1997)
„The Chief Magistrate derives all his authority from the people“
— Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865
1860s, First Inaugural Address (1861)
Kontext: The Chief Magistrate derives all his authority from the people, and they have referred none upon him to fix terms for the separation of the States. The people themselves can do this if also they choose, but the Executive as such has nothing to do with it. His duty is to administer the present Government as it came to his hands and to transmit it unimpaired by him to his successor.
Comment on a scene involving Baoyu with the maid Number Four in chapter 21, as reported and quoted by John Minford in Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography, ed. Kerry Brown, Vol. III (Berkshire Publishing Group, 2017), p. 1109
— Shahrukh Khan Indian actor, producer and television personality 1965
From interview with David Light
— Milan Kundera, buch Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins
Quelle: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first President of Turkey 1881 - 1938
Statement (1 November 1937), as quoted in Atatürk: The Biography of the founder of Modern Turkey (2002) by Andrew Mango
— Hermann von Keyserling German philosopher 1880 - 1946
Quelle: The Case for India, Will Durant. Quoted from Gewali, Salil (2013). Great Minds on India. New Delhi: Penguin Random House.
— Sam Harris American author, philosopher and neuroscientist 1967
Quelle: 2010s, Free Will (2012), p. 32
— Walter Goffart American historian 1934
Quelle: Quotaes, Barbarian Tides (2010), p. 4
— William Feather Publisher, Author 1889 - 1981
The Business of Life (1949)
