“Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.”
James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) Missionary in China
(Hudson Taylor’s Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 49).
Source: The Key to Solomon's Key (2006), Chapter 14
“Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.”
James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) Missionary in China
(Hudson Taylor’s Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 49).
“The main force in man — is the power of the spirit.”
Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968) Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, the first human in space
Ведь главная сила в человеке — это сила духа.
Variant translation: The main human strength is willpower.
As quoted in Essays on Marxist-Leninist Ethics [марксистско-ленинской этике] (1962) by Simon S. Utkin [Семен Семенович Уткин], p. 180
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
The Economics of Ireland and the Policy of the British Government (1921)
“What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?”
Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) English children's writer and illustrator
“Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Source: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 71 .
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Reies Tijerina (1926–2015) American activist
Quoted in Chicano Power: The Emergence of Mexican America by Tony Castro, ISBN 0841503214.
“In real-world Finance, they don't pay for elegance. They pay for power - predictive power.”
Robert Haugen (1942–2013) American economist
Source: The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why (1999), Chapter 13, Counterattack - The Second Wave, p. 129
“The profundity of truth varies with the seeing power of the spirit which seeks it.”
Ludwig Klages (1872–1956) German psychologist and philosopher
The Science of Character (1929), as translated by W. H. Johnston, p. 18