“Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. LXVI
Following the Equator (1897)
Martin Svoboda
@quick, member from April 4, 2011
“All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.”
Joseph Campbell
(1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
“That’s the best thing about being dead. It’s like being stupid. It’s only painful for others.”
Ricky Gervais
(1961) English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writer, and former radio presenter
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot
(1888–1965) 20th century English author
Preface to Transit of Venus: Poems by Harry Crosby (1931)
“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
Elbert Hubbard
(1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
“There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.”
Hannah Arendt
(1906–1975) Jewish-American political theorist
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
Max Planck
(1858–1947) German theoretical physicist
“Some mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.”
Banksy
pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Cut It Out (2004)
Source: Wall and Piece
“Black holes are where God divided by zero.”
Albert Einstein
(1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.”
Viktor E. Frankl
(1905–1997) Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor
“When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”
Viktor E. Frankl
(1905–1997) Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor
“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
Albert Einstein
(1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Letter to Jost Winteler (1901), quoted in The Private Lives of Albert Einstein by Roger Highfield and Paul Carter (1993), p. 79 http://books.google.com/books?id=zY7FE9ZyDO0C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA79#v=onepage&q&f=false. Einstein had been annoyed that Paul Drude, editor of Annalen der Physik, had dismissed out of hand some criticisms Einstein made of Drude's electron theory of metals.
1900s
Variant: A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.
"Me and My House" in Harper's (November 1955); republished in Notes of a Native Son (1955)
Source: The Fire Next Time
"In Search of a Majority: An Address" (Feb 1960); reprinted in Baldwin, "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobody_Knows_My_Name (1961)
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
James Baldwin
(1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
"As Much Truth As One Can Bear" in The New York Times Book Review (14 January 1962); republished in The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings (2011), edited by Randall Kenan<!-- , also quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 114 -->
Context: Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. … Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.