“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Martin Svoboda
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“The mechanical conception of the universe is nothing but naïve realism.”
Alfred Binet (1857–1911) French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test
Source: The Mind and the Brain, 1907, p. 38
Alfred Binet (1857–1911) French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test
Source: The Mind and the Brain, 1907, p. 27
Alfred Binet (1857–1911) French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test
Source: The Mind and the Brain, 1907, p. 37
John Von Neumann (1903–1957) Hungarian-American mathematician and polymath
Remark made by von Neumann as keynote speaker at the first national meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1947, as mentioned by Franz L. Alt at the end of "Archaeology of computers: Reminiscences, 1945--1947", Communications of the ACM, volume 15, issue 7, July 1972, special issue: Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Association for Computing Machinery, p. 694.
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer
“Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
Mark Twain book Following the Equator
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. LXVI
Following the Equator (1897)
“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
“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
“I don't have to have faith, I have experience.”
Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth
Source: The Power of Myth
“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. <br class="br">1900s <br class="br">Variant: A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.