Jared Diamond book Guns, Germs, and Steel
Source: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997), p. 241
As quoted in On the 8th Day — God Laughed (1995) by Gene Perret, p. 95.
Jared Diamond book Guns, Germs, and Steel
Source: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997), p. 241
Edith Hamilton (1867–1963) American teacher and writer
Three Greek Plays, introduction (1937)
Context: There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist, except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
“Is the world so unbearable? No! What we need is only a little more love for the world.”
Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) Indian writer and guru
#4386, Part 5
Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998)
Freeman Dyson book Infinite in All Directions
Source: Infinite in All Directions (1988), Ch. 1 : In Praise of Diversity
Context: There is no easy solution to the conflict between fundamentalist Christian dogma and the facts of biological evolution. I am not saying that the conflict could have been altogether avoided. I am saying only that the conflict was made more bitter and more damaging, both to religion and to science, by the dogmatic and self-righteousness of scientists. What was needed was a little more human charity, a little more willingness to listen rather than to lay down the law, a little more humility. Scientists stand in need of these Christian virtues just as much as preachers do.
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2011, Remarks by the President to Parliament in London, United Kingdom (May 2011)
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
(20 November 1847)
1840s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s
Context: What the age needs is not a genius — it has had geniuses enough, but a martyr, who in order to teach men to obey would himself be obedient unto death. What the age needs is awakening. And therefore someday, not only my writings but my whole life, all the intriguing mystery of the machine will be studied and studied. I never forget how God helps me and it is therefore my last wish that everything may be to his honour.
“There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few.”
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Froi of the Exiles
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Per un mondo migliore, c'è bisogno d'amore. Tutti hanno un cuore, ma solo alcuni riescono a farne buon uso.
Source: prevale.net