
„Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.“
— Nikola Tesla Serbian American inventor 1856 - 1943
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— Nikola Tesla Serbian American inventor 1856 - 1943
— Nikola Tesla Serbian American inventor 1856 - 1943
First attibution is to Ralph Bergstresser who claims to have heard this from Tesla in a conversation "following an experience with the Maharaja's son".
Disputed
Source: Coments From The Inventor of the Purple Harmony Plates http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/esp_ciencia_universalenergy02.htm,
— Neale Donald Walsch American writer 1943
Variant: The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.
— Karl Dönitz President of Germany; admiral in command of German submarine forces during World War II 1891 - 1980
1943, quoted in "World War II Almanac, 1931-1945: A Political and Military Record" - Page 293 by Robert Goralski - History - 1981.
— Karl Dönitz President of Germany; admiral in command of German submarine forces during World War II 1891 - 1980
The World at War: the Landmark Oral History from the Classic TV Series (2007) by Richard Holmes, Page 316.
— Emil M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911 - 1995
— Emil M. Cioran, book The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
— Pierre Curie French physicist 1859 - 1906
Nobel lecture (1905)
— Richard Francis Burton British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet,… 1821 - 1890
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
— Golda Meir former prime minister of Israel 1898 - 1978
As quoted in LIFE magazine (3 October 1969), p. 32
Context: We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon — no alternative. The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
— Gerardus Mercator cartographer, philosopher and mathematician 1512 - 1594
Evangelicæ Historiæ: Quadripartita Monas Sive Harmonia Quatuor Evangelistarum ("Harmonization of the Gospels") (1592), dedicatory letter. Quoted in Jean Van Raemdonck, Gerard Mercator: sa vie et ses oeuvres (1869), p. 25, footnote 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=18NNAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA25
— Hugo Black U.S. Supreme Court justice 1886 - 1971
Concurring in New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971).
— Kabir Indian mystic poet 1440 - 1518
— John le Carré, book The Mission Song
The Mission Song (2006)
— Jean-Luc Godard French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic 1930
Cited in: Paul Bowden, Telling It Like It Is https://books.google.nl/books?id=w8_p1eGVj8gC&pg=PA182&lpg=PA182&dq=%22Art+attracts+us+only+by+what+it+reveals+of+our+most+secret+self%22+%22jean+luc+godard%22&source=bl&ots=2zIpIhvB_1&sig=uImQSWu8ATehPk0hAhfck-ZowJc&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjwydLuqp_LAhVhDJoKHdrjACcQ6AEIUjAG#v=onepage&q=%22Art%20attracts%20us%20only%20by%20what%20it%20reveals%20of%20our%20most%20secret%20self%22%20%22jean%20luc%20godard%22&f=false, 2011, p. 182
Source: "What Is Cinema?" Les Amis du Cinéma (Paris, October 1, 1952).
— Adam Weishaupt German philosopher and founder of the Order of Illuminati 1748 - 1830
Die Leuchte des Diogenes (1804) p. 329.
— Adam Weishaupt German philosopher and founder of the Order of Illuminati 1748 - 1830
"Greeting to the newly integrated illuminatos dirigentes", in Nachtrag von weitern Originalschriften vol. 2 (1787) p. 45.
— Elliott Smith American singer-songwriter 1969 - 2003
before playing "Between the Bars" at a concert in 1996. http://www.archive.org/details/esmith2006-09-25..flacf.