„An immense and regular ugliness reigned within it. The country enjoyed perfect tranquillity. It had reached its zenith.“
Book VII : Modern Times, Ch. IX : The Final Consequences
Penguin Island (1908)
Kontext: Penguinia gloried in its wealth. Those who produced the things necessary for life, wanted them; those who did not produce them had more than enough. "But these," as a member of the Institute said, "are necessary economic fatalities." The great Penguin people had no longer either traditions, intellectual culture, or arts. The progress of civilisation manifested itself among them by murderous industry, infamous speculation, and hideous luxury. Its capital assumed, as did all the great cities of the time, a cosmopolitan and financial character. An immense and regular ugliness reigned within it. The country enjoyed perfect tranquillity. It had reached its zenith.
Anatole France12
französischer Schriftsteller 1844 - 1924Ähnliche Zitate
— Patañjali ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises -200 - -150 v.Chr
Patanjali, in “The Little Red Book of Yoga Wisdom”, p. 133.
— Henry Kissinger United States Secretary of State 1923
Quelle: "Reflections on Containment", Foreign Affairs, Vol. 73, No. 3 (June 1994), p. 130
— Charles Perrow American sociologist 1925 - 2019
Quelle: 1970s, Complex organizations, 1972, p. 5; Talking about bureaucracy
— John Conington British classical scholar 1825 - 1869
Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 215
— Aphra Behn British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer 1640 - 1689
The Lucky Mistake (1689).
Quelle: The Lucky Chance, Or, the Alderman's Bargain
— The Mother spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo 1878 - 1973
Her observations in 1917 on the immense vitality of the Japanese during the war, quoted in "Japan" (1916-20)
— E. B. White American writer 1899 - 1985
Foreword to Letters of E.B. White, edited Dorothy Lobrano Guth (1976)
— Calvin Coolidge American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929) 1872 - 1933
1920s, Ordered Liberty and World Peace (1924)
Kontext: To continue to be independent we must continue to be whole-hearted American. We must direct our policies and lay our course with the sole consideration of serving our own people. We cannot become the partisans of one nation, or the opponents of another. Our domestic affairs should be entirely free from foreign interference, whether such attempt be made by those who are without or within our own territory. America is a large country. It is a tolerant country. It has room within its borders for many races and many creeds. But it has no room for those who would place the interests of some other nation above the interests of our own nation.
„Perfection and imperfection are names which do not differ much from the names beauty and ugliness.“
— Baruch Spinoza Dutch philosopher 1632 - 1677
Letter to Hugo Boxel (Oct. 1674) The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza (1891) Tr. R. H. M. Elwes, Vol. 2, Letter 58 (54).
Kontext: Beauty, my dear Sir, is not so much a quality of the object beheld, as an effect in him who beholds it. If our sight were longer or shorter, or if our constitution were different, what now appears beautiful to us would seem misshapen, and what we now think misshapen we should regard as beautiful. The most beautiful hand seen through the microscope will appear horrible. Some things are beautiful at a distance, but ugly near; thus things regarded in themselves, and in relation to God, are neither ugly nor beautiful. Therefore, he who says that God has created the world, so that it might be beautiful, is bound to adopt one of the two alternatives, either that God created the world for the sake of men's pleasure and eyesight, or else that He created men's pleasure and eyesight for the sake of the world. Now, whether we adopt the former or the latter of these views, how God could have furthered His object by the creation of ghosts, I cannot see. Perfection and imperfection are names which do not differ much from the names beauty and ugliness.<!--p. 382
— Yehuda Ashlag Orthodox Jewish Rabbi and Kabbalist 1886 - 1954
Assorted Themes, On Love for the Fellow Man
— H. Havelock Ellis British physician, writer, and social reformer 1859 - 1939
Quelle: The Dance of Life http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300671.txt (1923), Ch. 7
— Walt Whitman American poet, essayist and journalist 1819 - 1892
Song of the Universal, 1
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
— Calvin Coolidge American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929) 1872 - 1933
1920s, Toleration and Liberalism (1925)
— Woodrow Wilson American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921) 1856 - 1924
Quelle: 1900s, A History of the American People, Vol. 9 (1902), p. 60
