
— Ayumi Hamasaki Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress 1978
Fairyland
Lyrics, (Miss)Understood
Quelle: House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998), p. xi
— Ayumi Hamasaki Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress 1978
Fairyland
Lyrics, (Miss)Understood
— Muriel Rukeyser poet and political activist 1913 - 1980
Quelle: The Life of Poetry (1949), Chapter One : The Fear of Poetry
Kontext: In this moment when we face horizons and conflicts wider than ever before, we want our resources, the ways of strength. We look again to the human wish, its faiths, the means by which the imagination leads us to surpass ourselves.
If there is a feeling that something has been lost, it may be because much has not yet been used, much is still to be found and begun.
Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything it has — the inventions, the histories, every scrap of fact. But there is one kind of knowledge — infinitely precious, time-resistant more than monuments, here to be passed between the generations in any way it may be: never to be used. And that is poetry.
— Tim Minchin Australian comedian, actor, singer, songwriter, music composer and musician (from British descend) 1975
"Storm", 2013 https://books.google.ca/books?id=8u9pBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA153&lpg=PA153&dq=%22tim+minchin%22+%22alternative+medicine%22+proved&source=bl&ots=tJIyTK6Fog&sig=i_Iquw3_fYAx-J8AXZd5sT-BfOk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjY_4vx-ebYAhVH_IMKHQnXDJAQ6AEIiAEwEA#v=onepage&q=%22tim%20minchin%22%20%22alternative%20medicine%22%20proved&f=false
„Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.“
— Dean Acheson Statesman and lawyer 1893 - 1971
Speech at West Point (5 December 1962), in Vital Speeches, January 1, 1963, page 163.
„A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.“
— William Osler Canadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital 1849 - 1919
Quelle: Sir William Osler : Aphorisms (1961), Ch. 1.
„The loss of historical memory is restored in the very place where one has lost it.“
— Sebouh Chouldjian Archbishop Sebouh Chouldjian is the primate of the Diocese of Gougark of the Armenian Apostolic Church 1959
[Chouldjian, Bishop Sebouh, w:Sebouh Chouldjian, A bishops' pilgrimage to Western Armenia, The Armenian Reporter, 2009-12-12, http://www.reporter.am/go/article/2009-12-12-a-bishops--pilgrimage-to-western-armenia, 2010-06-16]
Other
— Christopher Pike American author Kevin Christopher McFadden 1954
Quelle: Black Blood
— Allen Ginsberg American poet 1926 - 1997
As quoted in C. F. Main & Peter J. Seng, Poems (Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1973), p. 3
„You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found…“
— Rebecca Solnit Author and essayist from United States 1961
— Isaac Newton British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern classical physics 1643 - 1727
„So-called alternative medicine either hasn’t been tested or it has failed its tests.“
— Richard Dawkins English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author 1941
The Enemies of Reason (August 2007)
Kontext: If any remedy is tested under controlled scientific conditions and proved to be effective, it will cease to be alternative and will simply become medicine. So-called alternative medicine either hasn’t been tested or it has failed its tests.
— Joseph Roux French poet 1834 - 1905
Part 9, LIV
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)
— Aldous Huxley English writer 1894 - 1963
Introduction to the Bhagavad-Gita (1944)
Kontext: More than twenty-five centuries have passed since that which has been called the Perennial Philosophy was first committed to writing; and in the course of those centuries it has found expression, now partial, now complete, now in this form, now in that, again and again. In Vedanta and Hebrew prophecy, in the Tao Teh King and the Platonic dialogues, in the Gospel according to St. John and Mahayana theology, in Plotinus and the Areopagite, among the Persian Sufis and the Christian mystics of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance — the Perennial Philosophy has spoken almost all the languages of Asia and Europe and has made use of the terminology and traditions of every one of the higher religions. But under all this confusion of tongues and myths, of local histories and particularist doctrines, there remains a Highest Common Factor, which is the Perennial Philosophy in what may be called its chemically pure state. This final purity can never, of course, be expressed by any verbal statement of the philosophy, however undogmatic that statement may be, however deliberately syncretistic. The very fact that it is set down at a certain time by a certain writer, using this or that language, automatically imposes a certain sociological and personal bias on the doctrines so formulated. It is only in the act of contemplation when words and even personality are transcended, that the pure state of the Perennial Philosophy can actually be known. The records left by those who have known it in this way make it abundantly clear that all of them, whether Hindu, Buddhist, Hebrew, Taoist, Christian, or Mohammedan, were attempting to describe the same essentially indescribable Fact.