“This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain.”
Source: The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library
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“The water which rises in the mountain is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), I Philosophy
“Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.”
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) Mexican painter
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“This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.”
José Martí (1853–1895) Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader
A Morir [To Die]
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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
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“If there is a faith which can move mountains, then it is a faith in one’s own strength.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer
Wenn es einen Glauben gibt, der Berge versetzen kann, so ist es der Glaube an die eigene Kraft.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 22.
“Never underestimate the power of funny, it moves mountains.”
James Patterson (1947) American author
Source: Fang
Heinz R. Pagels (1939–1988) American physicist
Source: The Cosmic Code (1982), p. 271
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, Keep Moving From This Mountain (1965)