John Gray (1948) British philosopher
Sweet Morality (p. 224)
The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death (2011)
Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, (1985b, 142), as cited in Łukasiewicz, 2016.
John Gray (1948) British philosopher
Sweet Morality (p. 224)
The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death (2011)
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 152
Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
Context: THINK BIG means opening our horizons, reaching for new possibilities in our lives, being open to whatever God has in store for us on the road ahead.
T=TALENT : If you recognize your talents, use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, you will rise to the top of your field.
H=HONEST : If we live by the rule of honesty and accept our problems, we can go far down the road of achievement.
I=INSIGHT : If we observe and reflect and commit ourselves to giving our best, we will come out on top.
N=NICE : If we are nice to others, other respond to us in the same way, and we can give our best for each other.
K=KNOWLEDGE : If we make every attempt to increase our knowledge in order to use it for human go, it will make a difference in us and in our world.
B=BOOKS : If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.
I=IN-DEPTH LEARNING : If we develop in-depth knowledge, it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world.
G=GOD : If we acknowledge our need for God, he will help us.
Michael Dummett (1925–2011) British academic and philosopher
Dummett, M. A. E. The Logical Basis of Metaphysics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1991.
Alfredo Rocco (1875–1935) Italian politician and jurist
The end is the same for both, namely, the welfare of the individual members of society. The difference lies in the fact that liberalism would be guided to its goal by liberty, whereas socialism strives to attain it by the collective organization of production.
Source: The Political Doctrine of Fascism (1925), pp. 108-109
Richard Dawkins book Climbing Mount Improbable
Source: Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Chapter 8, “Pollen Grains and Magic Bullets” (p. 258)
Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author
The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton (1959)
Context: There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics. The former is supple and lifelike, it follows our experience. The latter is abstract and rigid, more ideal. The latter is perfectly necessary, perfectly reliable: the former is only sometimes reliable and hardly ever systematic. But the logic of mathematics achieves necessity at the expense of living truth, it is less real than the other, although more certain. It achieves certainty by a flight from the concrete into abstraction. Doubtless, to an idealist, this would seem to be a more perfect reality. I am not an idealist. The logic of the poet — that is, the logic of language or the experience itself — develops the way a living organism grows: it spreads out towards what it loves, and is heliotropic, like a plant.
Henry Giles (1809–1882) Irish minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 121.
Manuel Castells (1942) Spanish sociologist (b.1942)
Source: Urban renewal and social conflict in Paris, 1972, p. 93
Ruhollah Khomeini (1902–1989) Religious leader, politician
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Mata Amritanandamayi (1953) Hindu spiritual leader and guru
Amritanandamayi's Address Upon Receiving an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the State University of New York (2010)