“Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.”
Essays in Persuasion (1931), Clissold (1927)
“The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists, as the mother can love the unborn child.”
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens Chapter III "Pickwick Papers" (1911)
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Leonardo Da Vinci
(1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
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Theo van Doesburg
(1883–1931) Dutch architect, painter, draughtsman and writer
Quote in Van Doesburg's article 'From intuition towards certitude', 1930; as quoted in 'Réalités nouvelles', 1947, no. 1, p. 3
1926 – 1931
“We can do no great things; only small things with great love.(mother Teresa)”
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Enrico Fermi
(1901–1954) Italian physicist
On the Hydrogen bomb in a minority addendum http://honors.umd.edu/HONR269J/archive/GACReport491030.html (co-authored with I. I. Rabi) to an official General Advisory Committee report for the Atomic Energy Commission (30 October 1949)
Context: Such a weapon goes far beyond any military objective and enters the range of very great natural catastrophes. By its very nature it cannot be confined to a military objective but becomes a weapon which in practical effect is almost one of genocide. It is clear that the use of such a weapon cannot be justified on any ethical ground which gives a human being a certain individuality and dignity even if he happens to be a resident of an enemy country... The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger to humanity as a whole. It is necessarily an evil thing considered in any light.
Jacques Bertin
(1918–2010) French geographer and cartographer
Source: Semiology of graphics (1967/83), p. 139: Bertin’s definition of efficiency as cited in: Naomi B. Robbins (2009) Creating More Effective Graphs http://www.ssc.ca/ottawa/documents/SSO2009FallRobbins.pdf
Jon Stewart
(1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian
Hartford Advocate Interview (2008)
Context: I reject the idea there are just two sides. I think that with the amount of ideas and thoughts there are, it's not even going to be consistent with the same person. People can hold liberal and conservative dogma points at the same time. They're not living their lives via platforms. They're living their lives. The whole thing is an awfully tired construct.
George Kelly (psychologist)
(1905–1967) American psychologist and therapist
George A. Kelly, "Man's construction of his alternatives." Assessment of human motives (1958): 33-64.