Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight
Quotes from him, Csillag születik (talent show between 2011-2012)
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight
Gabriel Marcel (1889–1973) French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist
Source: Man Against Mass Society (1952), p. 1
Christian Homburg (1962) German academic
Source: "A multiple-layer model of market-oriented organizational culture", 2000, p. 453
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Le génie enfante, le goût conserve. Le goût est le bon sens du génie; sans le goût, le génie n'est qu'une sublime folie. <br class="br">François-René de Chateaubriand, in "Essai sur la littérature anglaise (1836): Modèles classiques http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/CadresFenetre?O=NUMM-101390&M=tdm. <br class="br">Misattributed
Catherine of Genoa (1447–1510) Italian author and nurse
Everything is mine, for all that is God’s seem to be wholly mine. I am mute and lost in God...God so transforms the soul in Him that it knows nothing other than God, and He continues to draw it up into His fiery love until He restores it to that pure state from which it first issued
Source: Life and Doctrine, p. 50
“Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.”
Thomas Jackson (1824–1863) Confederate general
Misattributed, Jackson's personal book of maxims
Swami Sivananda (1887–1963) Indian philosopher
Light, Power and Wisdom (1959), p. 6; note that the short phrase "Be good, do good" had occurred in spiritual teachings of others in the 19th century, usually in conjunction with other injunctions. "Be Good, Do Good" became a prominent motto of the Divine Life Society.
Light, Power and Wisdom (1959), p. 207
Variant: Be good, do good, be kind, be compassionate.
“I’m losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless.”
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
“A contract executed without any part performance.”
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778–1868) English barrister, politician, and Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
R. v. Millis (1844), 16 C1. & Fin. 719; describing marriage.