“The advantage of meditating upon life and death is being able to say anything at all about them.”
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
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Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911–1995Related quotes
“Life is too full of death for death to be able to add anything to it.”
Tears and Saints (1937)
“A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.”
Homo liber de nulla re minus, quam de morte cogitat, et ejus sapientia non mortis, sed vitae meditatio est.
Part IV, Prop. LXVII
Ethics (1677)
Quoted, The Beautiful and Damned (1922)
Hagakure (c. 1716)
“The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.”
Answer when he was asked why he had not yet reformed the U.N. an its agencies after five months, given that God had taken only seven days to create the universe. As quoted in TIME Magazine (1997), edited by Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce. Time Inc. Volume 149. Issues 2-8. p. 24. http://books.google.com.mx/books?id=fvpreL9CjiAC&q=%22The+Lord+had+the+wonderful+advantage+of+being+able+to+work+alone.%22&dq=%22The+Lord+had+the+wonderful+advantage+of+being+able+to+work+alone.%22&hl=es-419&sa=X&ei=gOHVUunlPIex2wWy14CQDA&ved=0CFwQ6AEwBg Also found in George Antwi (2012), "The Words of Power", Booksmango, p. 103.
Variant said by Kofi Annan himself during the " Desmond Tutu Annual International Peace Lecture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GEse_I0coY": "Mr. ambassador, you are right. But God had the unique advantage: He worked alone." (He explains that the question was made by the Russian Ambassador of the U.N. at that time).
This is an advantage which scientists enjoy over most other people engaged in intellectual pursuits, and they enjoy it at all levels of capability. To be a first-rate scientist it is not necessary (and certainly not sufficient) to be extremely clever, anyhow in a pyrotechnic sense. One of the great social revolutions brought about by scientific research has been the democratization of learning. Anyone who combines strong common sense with an ordinary degree of imaginativeness can become a creative scientist, and a happy one besides, in so far as happiness depends upon being able to develop to the limit of one's abilities.
1960s, Lucky Jim, 1968
Pt. 2, Ch. 5 - p.139
Giovanni's Room (1956)
Ray Kurzweil: The Library Journal, The virtual book revisited http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-virtual-book-revisited