“I myself can think of a dozen ways to annihilate all living persons within one hour.”
Fritz Zwicky, cited in " Idea Man http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/beamline/31/1/31-1-maurer.pdf", by Stephen M. Maurer; published in Beam Line (Winter 2001, Vol. 31, No. 1)
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Light (1919), Ch. XV - An Apparition
Context: I think of myself, of all that I am. Myself, my home, my hours; the past, and the future, — it was going to be like the past! And at that moment I feel, weeping within me and dragging itself from some little bygone trifle, a new and tragical sorrow in dying, a hunger to be warm once more in the rain and the cold: to enclose myself in myself in spite of space, to hold myself back, to live.
Pt. 1, ch. 11
Atticus Finch
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
from her short biography on the website of museum 'Lenbachhause', undated http://www.lenbachhaus.de/collection/the-blue-rider/werefkin/?L=1
1906 - 1911
“I like to think of myself as the girl that no one can get, that no one can keep in their hand.”
People Magazine http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20212607,00.html (July 15, 2008)
“I'm not a very happy person," I told him."But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am.”
Source: Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd
Kulturphilosophie (1923), Vol. 2 : Civilization and Ethics
Context: Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life. From an inner necessity, I exert myself in producing values and practising ethics in the world and on the world even though I do not understand the meaning of the world. For in world- and life-affirmation and in ethics I carry out the will of the universal will-to-live which reveals itself in me. I live my life in God, in the mysterious divine personality which I do not know as such in the world, but only experience as mysterious Will within myself.
Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism. To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to the multiform manifestations of the will-to-live which together constitute the world is ethical mysticism. All profound world-view is mysticism, the essence of which is just this: that out of my unsophisticated and naïve existence in the world there comes, as a result of thought about self and the world, spiritual self-devotion to the mysterious infinite Will which is continuously manifested in the universe.
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1992990,00.html
“After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?”