„There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved.“
— Charles Morgan British writer 1894 - 1958
„Nothing is more surprising than the surprises of history, and nothing more untrustworthy than the uncritical extrapolation of the tendencies of the recent past.“
Essay on Atomism: From Democritus to 1960 (1961), p.8
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Scottish industrial engineer 1896 - 1972Ähnliche Zitate
— Eric Hobsbawm British academic historian and Marxist historiographer 1917 - 2012
Chap. 3 : What Can History Tell Us about Contemporary Society?
On History (1997)
— Gustavo Gutiérrez Peruvian theologian 1928
Quelle: A Theology of Liberation - 15th Anniversary Edition, Chapter Nine, Liberation And Salvation, p. 91-92
— Mark Batterson American pastor and writer 1969
Quelle: Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge
„There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.“
— Charles Baudelaire, buch Le Spleen de Paris
Il n'est pas de plaisir plus doux que de surprendre un homme en lui donnant plus qu'il n'espère.
XXVIII: "La Fausse Monnaie" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Petits_Po%C3%A8mes_en_prose_-_XXVIII._La_Fausse_Monnaie
Le Spleen de Paris (1862)
„Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.“
— Voltaire, buch L'Ingénu
En effet, l'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs.
L'Ingénu, ch.10 (1767)
Quoted in The End, part 13 of A Series of Unfortunate Events
Citas
— Thomas Fuller (writer) British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654 - 1734
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
— Lewis Pugh Environmental campaigner, maritime lawyer and endurance swimmer 1969
Address to the House of Lords (19 November 2010)
Speaking & Features
„There was nothing, nothing to depend on. And why was I surprised?“
— Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
Quelle: Lock and Key
— Henri Bergson, buch Creative Evolution
Creative Evolution (1907), Chapter I, as translated by Arthur Mitchell (1911), p. 14.; italicized in the original.
— Sheri S. Tepper American fiction writer 1929 - 2016
Guardian Camwar, in Ch. 4 : the cooper<!-- p. 42 -->
Quelle: The Visitor (2002)
Kontext: You asked for wisdom? Hear these words. Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.
„As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.“
— Thomas Traherne English poet 1636 - 1674
First Century, sect. 8.
Centuries of Meditations
„Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying“
— Thomas Paine English and American political activist 1737 - 1809
— David Hume, buch Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary
Part I, Essay 4: Of The First Principles of Government
Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (1741-2; 1748)
Kontext: Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. When we enquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find, that, as Force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is therefore, on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most popular.
„There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous.“
— Robert Greene, buch The 48 Laws of Power
Quelle: The 48 Laws of Power
