“It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.”
Source: The Social Contract
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“Conquer yourself rather than the world.”
René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
Amos Tversky (1937–1996) Israeli psychologist
Source: As remembered by Don Redelmeir, Michael Lewis, "The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World". Penguin, 2016 (ISBN 9780141983035).
Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine
Source: The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great
“There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But, who wants easier?”
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
Source: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1
“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky book Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment (1866)
“It's easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky book The Idiot
Part 4, Chapter 7 http://books.google.com/books?id=WuAKAQAAMAAJ&q=&quot;It's+easier+for+a+Russian+to+become+an+atheist+than+for+anyone+else+in+the+world&quot;&pg=PA548#v=onepage <br class="br">The Idiot (1868–9)
“.. [that] the overturning of the old world of arts will be etched across your 'palms”
Kazimir Malevich (1879–1935) Russian and Soviet artist of polish descent
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admonition from the cover of Malevich's 'novykh sistemakh v iskusstve' (Vitebsk: Unovis, 1919); the cover is reproduced in Malevich: Suprematism and Revolution in Russian Art, Larissa A. Zhadova, (trans. Alexander Lieven); London: Thames and Hudson, 1982
the notice on the verso reads: 'Work and edition by the workshop [artef] of artistic labor at the Vitebsk Svomas'
1910 - 1920
“One day with life and heart
Is more than time enough to find a world.”
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
Columbus (1844)
