“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to someone else.”
James Patterson (1947) American author
Source: First Love
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
La plus grande chose du monde, c'est de savoir être à soi.
Book I, Ch. 39
Essais (1595), Book I
Source: The Complete Essays
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André Gide book The Immoralist
Savoir se libérer n'est rien; l'ardu, c'est savoir être libre. <br class="br">The Immoralist, Chapter 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=MPmRAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Savoir+se+lib%C3%A9rer+n'est+rien+l'ardu+c'est+savoir+%C3%AAtre+libre%22&jtp=17#v=onepage (1902) <br class="br">The Immoralist (1902)
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Chi sa donare vero amore appartiene esclusivamente a quella rarità di esseri viventi, capaci di cambiare il mondo.
Source: prevale.net
“…to feel oneself a martyr, as everybody knows, is a pleasurable thing…”
Robert Erskine Childers (1870–1922) Irish nationalist and author
Source: Literary Years and War (1900-1918), The Riddle Of The Sands (1903), p. 1.
Pierre Hadot (1922–2010) French historian and philosopher
trans. Michael Chase (1995), p. 90
La Philosophie comme manière de vivre (2001)
Ruhollah Khomeini (1902–1989) Religious leader, politician
Pithy Aphorisms: Wise Saying and Counsels, Edited by Mansoor Limba, Tehran: The Institute for Compilation and Publication of Imam Khomeini’s Works -- International Affairs Department, p. 4.
Theology and Mysticism
“How can you own […] numbers? Numbers belong to the world.”
Donald Ervin Knuth (1938) American computer scientist
In his video account on the creation of TeX http://www.webofstories.com/people/donald.knuth/52?o=SH, he comments that Xerox offered to allow him to use their equipment, but that the fonts he created would belong to them.
“How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world! and how much the best!”
Charles James Fox (1749–1806) British Whig statesman
Letter to Mr. Fitzpatrick (30 July 1789) on the fall of the Bastille, printed in J. Russell (ed.), Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox. Volume II (London: Richard Bentley, 1853), p. 361.
1780s
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
As quoted in Perfecting Ourselves : Coordinating Body, Mind, and Spirit (2002) by Aaron Hoopes, p. 64
Posthumous publications