Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901–1972) austrian biologist and philosopher
Source: 1950s, Problems of Life (1952, 1960), p. 52)
Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901–1972) austrian biologist and philosopher
Source: 1950s, Problems of Life (1952, 1960), p. 52)
“The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.”
G. K. Chesterton book The Defendant
"A Defence of Slang"
The Defendant (1901)
M. Balamuralikrishna (1930–2016) Carnatic vocalist, instrumentalist and playback singer
Source: Staff Reporter, "Mangalampalli can't wait to come home".
“The changes are not going to stop. They are going to continue and accelerate. Like it or not.”
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Acceptance Speech for the Margaret Edwards Award (1998)
Context: I don't want to dump on TV, but there's no doubt that our language has been changed by television, especially by the media, which tries to manipulate us into being consumers. Most of the time nowadays we human beings are referred to as consumers. What does the consumer think? What does the consumer want? How ugly. Forest fires consume. Cancer consumes. I want us to be nourishers. To be a librarian, particularly a librarian for young adults, is to be a nourisher, to share stories, offer books full of new ideas. We live in a world which has changed radically in the last half century, and story helps us to understand and live creatively with change.
The changes are not going to stop. They are going to continue and accelerate. Like it or not.
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
Sejamos simples e calmos,
Como os regatos e as árvores,
E Deus amar-nos-á fazendo de nós
Belos como as árvores e os regatos,
E dar-nos-á verdor na sua primavera,
E um rio aonde ir ter quando acabemos...
E não nos dará mais nada, porque dar-nos mais seria tirar-nos mais.
Alberto Caeiro (heteronym), O Guardador de Rebanhos ("The Keeper of Sheep"), VI — in A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe, trans. Richard Zenith (Penguin, 2006)
“You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in.”
Heraclitus (-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
“Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.”
Stephen King (1947) American author
Source: The Wind Through the Keyhole
Jack Johnson (musician) (1975) American musician
Broken.
Song lyrics, Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for the Film Curious George (2006)