
II. könyv 1. f.
Forrással ellátott, Metafizika
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
"As Much Truth As One Can Bear" in The New York Times Book Review (14 January 1962); republished in The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings (2011), edited by Randall Kenan<!-- , also quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 114 -->
Kontextus: Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. … Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
II. könyv 1. f.
Forrással ellátott, Metafizika
Neki tulajdonított idézetek
Eredeti: People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.
Emlékeim Szókratészról, II. 8. 5.
Neki tulajdonított idézetek, Xenophón
„A szemet szemért elv csak oda vezet, hogy az egész világ megvakul.”
Egy önéletrajz
Eredeti: An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
„Könnyes szemmel integetett egészen addig, amíg el nem tűntek a szeme elől.”
Nils Holgersson csodálatos utazása