“Since nothing is absolute, there is no absolute silence, only an appearance of temporary peace.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Silence Is the Universal Library http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21396/Silence_Is_the_Universal_Library_ <br class="br">From the poems written in English
“The leafless orchard
Is alone day and night
With his pure and sad silence.”
Mehdi Akhavan-Sales (1928–1990) Iranian poet
Poem The Leafless Garden; Quoted in website devoted to the poet, 2013 http://www.mehdiakhavansales.com/the-leafless-garden/
“A hero looks death in the face, real death, not just the image of death.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 50e
Context: A hero looks death in the face, real death, not just the image of death. Behaving honourably in a crisis doesn't mean being able to act the part of a hero well, as in the theatre, it means being able to look death itself in the eye.
For an actor may play lots of different roles, but at the end of it all he himself, the human being, is the one who has to die.
Paul McCartney (1942) English singer-songwriter and composer
Source: Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics, 1965-1999
“Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.”
Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) French sociologist and philosopher
“Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.”
Arthur Koestler (1905–1983) Hungarian-British author and journalist
“The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.”
Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944) British astrophysicist
Source: The Nature of the Physical World (1928), Ch. 2 Relativity
