Martin Svoboda

@quick, member from April 4, 2011

https://citaty.net/

“You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.”

George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (1866–1949) influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, composer and writer

“Sentiment changes. Truth is eternal.”

Liu Yiming

“Chaos Isn't A Pit. Chaos Is A Ladder.”

movie Game of Thrones

Character Petyr Baelish, Littlefinger

“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

“I have always detested Germany. I have never gone there. But I have read many German books on law. They are so far from our views that they have inspired in me a feeling of aversion.”

Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)

Source: Manfred F. Boemeke: Woodrow Wilson’s Image of Germany. In: Manfred Boemeke u. a. (Hrsg.): The Treaty of Versailles. A Reassessment after 75 Years. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1998, S. 603–614, hier S. 603., https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson#Haltung_zu_Deutschland

“Mostly it is the loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

“You may love your country and hate your government.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: https://www.facebook.com/paulocoelho/posts/10159033117301211

“My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations.”

John Green book The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“You gave me forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”

John Green book The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.”

John Green book The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”

John Green book Looking for Alaska

Source: Looking for Alaska

“Today, music heralds… the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.”

Jacques Attali (1943) French economist

Source: Quotations of the Day: September 2003, https://www.bartleby.com/quotations/092003.html

“There is a crack in every thing God has made.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Source: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/11/16/light/
Context: Siegfried, in the Nibelungen, is not quite immortal, for a leaf fell on his back whilst he was bathing in the Dragon’s blood, and that spot which it covered is mortal. And so it always is. There is a crack in every thing God has made.

“Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.”

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn (1792–1870) Swiss poet (1792-1870)

“A study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.”

Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/books/robert-pirsig-dead-wrote-zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance.html