„Millionen von Jahren lebte die Menschheit genau wie die Tiere. Dann geschah etwas, das die Kraft unserer Vorstellungskraft freisetzte. Wir haben sprechen gelernt und wir haben zugehört.“
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For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen.
British Telecom advertisement (1993), part of which was used in Pink Floyd's Keep Talking (1994) and Talkin' Hawkin'<nowiki/> (2014)
Kontext: For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.
Stephen Hawking 97
britischer theoretischer Physiker 1942–2018Ähnliche Zitate
Frühling und Herbst des Lü Bu We, S. 188
„Millionen von Arbeitsstunden gehen jedes Jahr durch unzureichende Lehrbücher verloren.“
Stilkunst, Ein Lehrbuch deutscher Prosa. Neubearbeitung Stefan Meyer und Jürgen Schiewe, C.H. Beck München 2004. IV, Die Kunst zu lehren. S. 339 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=scRd4cdd-1IC&pg=PA339&dq=Arbeitsstunden
„Nicht die Jahre in unserem Leben zählen, sondern das Leben in unseren Jahren.“
Address at Princeton University, "The Educated Citizen". 22. März 1954. auch in: What I think. New York und London 1956. S. 172 ff. (die Rede), S. 179 (das Zitat)
Original engl.: "To my way of thinking it is not the years in your life but the life in your years that count in the long run. You'll have more fun, you'll do more and you'll get more, you'll give more satisfaction the more you know, the more you have worked, and the more you have lived. For yours is a great adventure at a stirring time in the annals of men." - princeton.edu http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/mudd/online_ex/stevenson/adlai1954.html
Variante: "It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts."
„So viele Menschen sind, so viele Kräfte, so viele Eigenschaften hat die Menschheit.“
Das Wesen des Christentums 1848, S.66 http://www.zeno.org/Philosophie/M/Feuerbach,+Ludwig/Das+Wesen+des+Christentums/Einleitung/2.+Das+Wesen+der+Religion+im+allgemeinen
Das Wesen des Christentums
„Kunst ist die einzige Kraft, die die Menschheit von jeglicher Unterdrückung befreit.“