“One is never free except in relation to someone else. And when, the relation is based on happiness, it allows the greatest freedom in the world.”
Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide (1969, Sunlight on Cold Water, translated 1971)
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“Allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too.”
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra
“Cross-strait relations are not nation-to-nation based. These are special relations.”
Wu Po-hsiung (2013) quoted in: " Ma not reserved on cross-strait issues: Xi http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2013/06/14/381157/Ma-not.htm" in The China Post 14 June 2013.
Statements were made during KMT-CPC Forum in Beijing in June 2013.
Wu lauds DPP’s China department (2012)
Mount Madonna Messenger, March 26, 2016
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to someone else.”
Source: First Love
(1847)
“Since of quantity, one kind is viewed by itself, having no relation to anything else”
Nicomachus of Gerasa: Introduction to Arithmetic (1926)
Context: Since of quantity, one kind is viewed by itself, having no relation to anything else, as 'even,' 'odd,' 'perfect,' and the like, and the other is relative to something else, and is conceived of together with its relationship to another thing, like' double,', greater,' 'smaller,' 'half,' 'one and one-half times,' 'one and one-third times,' and so forth, it is clear that two scientific methods will lay hold of and deal with the whole investigation of quantity: arithmetic, [with] absolute quantity; and music, [with] relative quantity.<!--Book I, Chapter III, p.184
“Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.”
Source: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980