Wilhelm Keitel (1882–1946) German general
To Leon Goldensohn, May 17, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004 - Page 166
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 75, “Interlude—Obedience” (p. 593)
Wilhelm Keitel (1882–1946) German general
To Leon Goldensohn, May 17, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004 - Page 166
“Mathematics is the bold luxury of pure reason, one of the few that remain today.”
Robert Musil (1880–1942) Austrian writer
Source: “Mathematical man” (1913), p. 41
“People are like music; few, pure harmony... many, only noise.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Le persone sono come la musica; poche, pura armonia... tante, solo rumore.
Source: prevale.net
Ariana Miyamoto (1994) Miss Universe Japan 2015
12 May 2015 to Associated Free Press via Cosmopolitan http://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/news/a40403/ariana-miyamoto-miss-universe-japan/
“These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.”
Annie Dillard book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
“Give me few men and women who are pure and selfless and I shall shake the world.”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
Pearls of Wisdom
Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 844