Quotes of famous people

„When we surrender when we do not fight with life when it calls upon us we are lifted and the strength to do what needs to be done finds us.“

—  Oriah Mountain Dreamer Canadian author 1954

Source: The Invitation

„True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.“

—  Jane Addams pioneer settlement social worker 1860 - 1935

„A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest.“

—  Paulo Coelho, book The Winner Stands Alone

Source: The Winner Stands Alone

„The purely psychological interpretation only apprehends half of the matter. The other half is the revealing of the archetypal basis of the terms actually applied in modern physics.“

—  Wolfgang Pauli Austrian physicist, Nobel prize winner 1900 - 1958

Letter to Carl Jung, (16 June 1948)
Context: The purely psychological interpretation only apprehends half of the matter. The other half is the revealing of the archetypal basis of the terms actually applied in modern physics. What the final method of observation must see in the production of "background physics" through the unconscious of modern man is a directing of objective toward a future description of nature that uniformly comprises physis and psyche, a form of description that at the moment we are experiencing only in a prescientific phase. To achieve such a uniform description of nature, it appears to be essential to have recourse to the archetypal background of the scientific terms and concepts.

„Make it so easy you can't say no.“

—  Leo Babauta, Zen Habits

https://zenhabits.net/habitses/ The Four Habits that Form Habits (13 February, 2013)
Zen Habits (2007–present)

„In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.“

—  George Best British footballer 1946 - 2005

Reported in Ned Sherrin, Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (2008), p. 153.

„People give names to persons and things, and then suppose that if they know the names, they know that which the names refer to.“

—  Keiji Nishitani, book Religion and Nothingness

Source: Religion and Nothingness (1983), p. 101

„Divinity reveals herself in all things… everything has Divinity latent within itself.“

—  Giordano Bruno Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer 1548 - 1600

As translated by Arthur Imerti (1964)
The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast (1584)
Context: Divinity reveals herself in all things... everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity. Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.

„Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of his kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.“

—  Giordano Bruno Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer 1548 - 1600

On the Infinite Universe and Worlds (1584)
Context: Make then your forecasts, my lords Astrologers, with your slavish physicians, by means of those astrolabes with which you seek to discern the fantastic nine moving spheres; in these you finally imprison your own minds, so that you appear to me but as parrots in a cage, while I watch you dancing up and down, turning and hopping within those circles. We know that the Supreme Ruler cannot have a seat so narrow, so miserable a throne, so trivial, so scanty a court, so small and feeble a simulacrum that phantasm can bring to birth, a dream shatter, a delusion restore, a calamity diminish, a misdeed abolish and a thought renew it again, so that indeed with a puff of air it were brimful and with a single gulp it were emptied. On the contrary we recognize a noble image, a marvellous conception, a supreme figure, an exalted shadow, an infinite representation of the represented infinity, a spectacle worthy of the excellence and supremacy of Him who transcendeth understanding, comprehension or grasp. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of his kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.

„Nature is none other than God in things…“

—  Giordano Bruno Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer 1548 - 1600

As quoted in Elements of Pantheism (2004) by Paul A. Harrison
Context: Nature is none other than God in things... Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things... Think thus, of the sun in the crocus, in the narcissus, in the heliotrope, in the rooster, in the lion.

„The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.“

—  Giordano Bruno Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer 1548 - 1600

Cabal of the Cheval Pegasus (1585)
Context: The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life. The greatest asses of the world are those who, lacking all understanding and instruction, and void of all civil life and custom, rot in perpetual pedantry; those who by the grace of heaven would reform obscure and corrupted faith, salve the cruelties of perverted religion and remove abuse of superstitions, mending the rents in their vesture. It is not they who indulge impious curiosity or who are ever seeking the secrets of nature, and reckoning the courses of the stars. Observe whether they have been busy with the secret causes of things, or if they have condoned the destruction of kingdoms, the dispersion of peoples, fires, blood, ruin or extermination; whether they seek the destruction of the whole world that it may belong to them: in order that the poor soul may be saved, that an edifice may be raised in heaven, that treasure may be laid up in that blessed land, caring naught for fame, profit or glory in this frail and uncertain life, but only for that other most certain and eternal life.

„Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.“

—  Giordano Bruno Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer 1548 - 1600

„It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.“

—  Henri Poincaré French mathematician, physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science 1854 - 1912

„America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.“

—  Fulton J. Sheen Catholic bishop and television presenter 1895 - 1979

"A Plea For Intolerance" (1931)

„It [animal research] is immoral even if it's essential.“

—  Ingrid Newkirk British-American activist 1949

Washington Post 1989 May 30.
On animal research and activism against it

„The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.“

—  Alfred Bester, book The Stars My Destination

Source: The Stars My Destination

„The end of the chapter is the beginning of the new chapter.“

—  Miyuru Amarasiri Artist 2002

„If you look at the darkness, not light, every day, your life will be filled with darkness.“

—  Miyuru Amarasiri Artist 2002

Coos, "Miyuru Amarasiri," https://www.coos.com/quotes/if-you-look-at-the-darkness-not-light-every-day-your-life-will-be-filled-with-darkness-%E2%80%95-miyuru-bhashitha-amarasiri June 10, 2021,

„Be happy because you're living today, not today, but tomorrow because of your determination.“

—  Miyuru Amarasiri Artist 2002