Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist
Source: A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God (1908), V
Living Water
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist
Source: A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God (1908), V
Carl Ludwig Siegel (1896–1981) German mathematician
[Lectures on the Geometry of Numbers, https://books.google.com/books?id=dyH4CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA6] (p. 6)
“Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.”
Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872) Italian patriot, politician and philosopher
Attributed in The Cambridge Modern History (1907), ed. Adolphus William Ward et al., Vol. 10, p. 122
“There’s an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
Sutta 62, verse 14, p. 530
Pali Canon, Sutta Pitaka, Majjhima Nikaya (Middle Length Discourses)
“[Translated]: The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants.”
Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac (1755–1841) French politician, freemason, journalist, and one of the most notorious members of the National Convention …
L'arbre de la liberté ne croit qu'arrosé par le sang des tyrans.
Speech in the Convention Nationale, 1792.
“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