Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook E (1775 - 1776)
“Minds that have nothing to confer
Find little to perceive.”
Yes, Thou art Fair, Yet Be Not Moved, st. 2 (1845).
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François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Comme c’est le caractère des grands esprits de faire entendre en peu de paroles beaucoup de choses, les petits esprits au contraire ont le don de beaucoup parler, et de ne rien dire.
Maxim 142.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.”
Arthur Conan Doyle book A Study in Scarlet
Source: A Study in Scarlet
“God is directly perceived by the mind, but not by this ordinary mind.”
Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 68
Context: God is directly perceived by the mind, but not by this ordinary mind. It is the pure mind that perceives God, and at that time this ordinary mind does not function. A mind that has the slightest trace of attachment to the world cannot be called pure. When all the impurities of the mind are removed, you may call that mind Pure Mind or Pure Ātman.
“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Lord Dunsany (1878–1957) Irish writer and dramatist
Romance of Modern Stage; National Review of London; 1911
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–1995) physicist
From a lecture, "Beauty and the Quest for Beauty in Science" given at the International Symposium in recognition of Robert R. Wilson on April 27, 1979 at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois.
“Let us strive then, while Life is ours, to secure that Death may find we have left little or nothing he can destroy.”
Proinde, dum suppetit vita, enitamur ut mors quam paucissima quae abolere possit inveniat.
Pliny the Younger (61–113) Roman writer
Letter 5, 8.
Letters, Book V
