“The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.”
Charles Dickens book Bleak House
Source: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 39
The Man who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
“The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.”
Charles Dickens book Bleak House
Source: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 39
Walter Russell (1871–1963) American philosopher
The Man who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Message to Chairman Khrushchev Concerning the Meaning of Events in Cuba (18 April 1961).
1961
David Lane (white nationalist) (1938–2007) American white supremacist, convicted felon
Crossing the Rubicon
Focus Fourteen
“A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.”
James C. Collins (1958) American business consultant and writer
Source: Good To Great And The Social Sectors, 2005, p. 1
Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929) American academic
Source: The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts, 1914, p. 67
George Holmes Howison (1834–1916) American philosopher
Source: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), The Harmony of Determinism and Freedom, p.325
“But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”
Rachel Carson (1907–1964) American marine biologist and conservationist
Martin Buber (1878–1965) German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian
Source: What is Man? (1938), p. 180
Context: When we see a great man desiring power instead of his real goal we soon recognize that he is sick, or more precisely that his attitude to his work is sick. He overreaches himself, the work denies itself to him, the incarnation of the spirit no longer takes place, and to avoid the threat of senselessness he snatches after empty power. This sickness casts the genius on to the same level as those hysterical figures who, being by nature without power, slave for power, in order that they may enjoy the illusion that they are inwardly powerful, and who in this striving for power cannot let a pause intervene, since a pause would bring with it the possibility of self-reflection and self-reflection would bring collapse.