„Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possible“

„Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.“

—  John Selden English jurist and scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution, and of Jewish law 1584 - 1654

Law.
Table Talk (1689)

„The possibility of all philosophy … namely, that the intelligence, by affecting itself, gives itself a movement in accordance with its own law — that is, gives itself a form of activity all its own.“

—  Novalis German poet and writer 1772 - 1801

Die Möglichkeit aller Philosophie ... dass sich die Intelligenz durch Selbstberührung eine Selbstgesezmäßige Bewegung - d.i. eine eigne Form der Tätigkeit gibt.
Schriften, p. 63, as translated in Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings: Volume 1, 1913-1926 (1996), p. 133

„Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.“

—  Marcus Aurelius, buch Selbstbetrachtungen

VI, 19
Original: (el) Μή, εἴ τι αὐτῷ σοὶ δυσκαταπόνητον, τοῦτο ἀνθρώπῳ ἀδύνατον ὑπολαμβάνειν, ἀλλ εἴ τι ἀνθρώπῳ δυνατὸν καὶ οἰκεῖον, τοῦτο καὶ σεαυτῷ ἐφικτὸν νομίζειν.
Quelle: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VI

„Jehovah is the Lord of the universe, and no responsible creature can feel itself in its right place except in cheerful loyalty to its Creator. And Jehovah is the Joy of the universe, and no intelligent being but must feel a great void in its affections, till once it love the Lord its God with all its strength and mind.“

—  James Hamilton Scottish minister and a prolific author of religious tracts 1814 - 1867

Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 610.

„A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.“

—  Agatha Christie, buch The Hound of Death

Quelle: The Hound of Death

„Nothing is really good or bad in itself — it’s all what a person thinks about it.“

—  William Shakespeare English playwright and poet 1564 - 1616

„The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.“

—  Bertrand Russell, buch The Conquest of Happiness

Quelle: The Conquest of Happiness

„The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.“

—  H.P. Lovecraft American author 1890 - 1937

Fiction, The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
Kontext: The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

„Every word, every line, every thought is prompted by the age we live in, with all its circumstances, its ties, its efforts, its past and present. It is impossible to act or think independently and arbitrarily. This is comforting in a way. To the individual, the collective experience of the age represents a bond – and also, in a sense, security; there will always be possibilities even in disaster.“

—  Gerhard Richter German visual artist, born 1932 1932

undated quotes, The Daily Practice of Painting, Writings (1962-1993)

„As a lawyer I am before and above all things for the supremacy of law.“

—  John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician 1820 - 1894

The Queen v. Bishop of London (1889), L. R. 23 Q. B. 452.

„A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should be added to it and nothing should be subtracted from it.“

—  David Lynch American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor 1946

Scene by Scene interview BBC 2 (1999) http://web.archive.org/20040210020322/members.fortunecity.com/vanessa77/index2005.html

„All things that are in the world are linked together, one way or the other. Not a single thing comes into being without some relationship to every other thing. Scientific intellect thinks here in terms of natural laws of necessary causality; mythico-poetic imagination perceives an organic, living connection; philosophic reason contemplates an absolute One. But on a more essential level, a system of circuminsession has to be seen here, according to which, on the field of Śūnyatā, all things are in a process of becoming master and servant to one another. In this system, each thing is itself in not being itself, and is not itself in being itself. Its being is illusion in its truth and truth in its illusion. This may sound strange the first time one hears it, but in fact it enables us for the first time to conceive of a force by virtue of which all things are gathered together and brought into relationship with one another, a force which, since ancient times, has gone by the name of "nature"“

—  Keiji Nishitani, buch Religion and Nothingness

physis
Quelle: Religion and Nothingness (1983), p. 149

„It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic, of all things physical and metaphysical, of all things human and all things superhuman, of all true manifestations of the head, of the heart, of the soul, that the life is recognizable in its expression, that form ever follows function. This is the law.“

—  Louis Sullivan American architect 1856 - 1924

The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered (1896)
Kontext: Whether it be the sweeping eagle in his flight, or the open apple-blossom, the toiling work-horse, the blithe swan, the branching oak, the winding stream at its base, the drifting clouds, over all the coursing sun, form ever follows function, and this is the law. Where function does not change form does not change. The granite rocks, the ever brooding hills, remain for ages; the lightning lives, comes into shape, and dies in a twinkling.
It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic, of all things physical and metaphysical, of all things human and all things superhuman, of all true manifestations of the head, of the heart, of the soul, that the life is recognizable in its expression, that form ever follows function. This is the law.

„You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.“

—  Jodi Picoult Author 1966

Quelle: Vanishing Acts

„Sensation tell us a thing is.
Thinking tell us what it is this thing is.
Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.“

—  C.G. Jung Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology 1875 - 1961

„You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn’t decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place.“

—  Ann Brashares American children's writer 1967

„If there is any thing that can render the soul calm, dissipate its scruples, and dispel its fears, sweeten its sufferings by the anointing of love, impart strength to it in all its actions, and spread abroad the joy of the Holy Spirit in its countenance and words, it is a simple, free, and child-like repose in the arms of God.“

—  François Fénelon Catholic bishop 1651 - 1715

Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 446.

„If you think a thing is impossible, you'll only make it impossible.“

—  Bruce Lee, buch Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Quelle: Tao of Jeet Kune Do

„You think things have to be possible? Things have to be!“

—  Philip Pullman English author 1946