Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist
Vol. II, Ch. XVII, p. 351.
(Buch II) (1893)
“Money alone sets all the world in motion.”
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Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
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Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
Vangisasamyutta, as translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi (2000), p. 287
Source: Pali Canon, Sutta Pitaka, Samyutta Nikaya (Connected Discourses)
“Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.”
Isaac Newton (1643–1727) British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern classical physics
“Life — is it anything more than a machine to which money imparts the motion?”
Honoré de Balzac book Gobseck
La vie n'est-elle pas une machine à laquelle l'argent imprime le mouvement? <br class="br"> p. 26, 1921 édition https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31158007362832;view=1up;seq=63 <br class="br">Gobseck (1830)
“Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.”
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British playwright, novelist, short story writer
Quoted in Somerset Maugham (1980) by Ted Morgan
Leo Strauss (1899–1973) Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservativism
Source: Natural Right and History (1953), p. 116
“A wish is just words. Belief is the catalyst. It's what sets that wish into motion.”
Jodi Picoult (1966) Author
Source: Off the Page
“The slightest stirring in the air can set a hurricane in motion a thousand miles off. (Acheron)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Unleash the Night
“God can only set in motion:
He cannot control the things he has made.”
Tao Yuanming (365–427) Chinese poet
Substance, Shadow, and Spirit, "Spirit expounds"
Translated by Arthur Waley
