Naum Gabo (1890–1977) Russian sculptor
Quote of Naum Gabo, 1950; as cited in: Eidos: a journal of painting, sculpture and design. Nr.1, p. 31
1936 - 1977
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
Naum Gabo (1890–1977) Russian sculptor
Quote of Naum Gabo, 1950; as cited in: Eidos: a journal of painting, sculpture and design. Nr.1, p. 31
1936 - 1977
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
Earliest instance of this quote found on google books is the 1989 book Forest primeval: the natural history of an ancient forest by Chris Maser, but there it appears to be Maser's own thought (see p. 230 http://books.google.com/books?id=8EAHQM54E5gC&q=%a+mirror% followed by a different supposed Gandhi quote http://books.google.com/books?id=8EAHQM54E5gC&q=gandhi). <br class="br">Disputed
Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) French philosopher
Source: Cinema 1: The Movement-Image
Immanuel Kant book Critique of Practical Reason
Variant: Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Source: Critique of Practical Reason (1788)
Context: Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within. I have not to search for them and conjecture them as though they were veiled in darkness or were in the transcendent region beyond my horizon; I see them before me and connect them directly with the consciousness of my existence. The former begins from the place I occupy in the external world of sense, and enlarges my connection therein to an unbounded extent with worlds upon worlds and systems of systems, and moreover into limitless times of their periodic motion, its beginning and continuance. The second begins from my invisible self, my personality, and exhibits me in a world which has true infinity, but which is traceable only by the understanding, and with which I discern that I am not in a merely contingent but in a universal and necessary connection, as I am also thereby with all those visible worlds. The former view of a countless multitude of worlds annihilates as it were my importance as an animal creature, which after it has been for a short time provided with vital power, one knows not how, must again give back the matter of which it was formed to the planet it inhabits (a mere speck in the universe). The second, on the contrary, infinitely elevates my worth as an intelligence by my personality, in which the moral law reveals to me a life independent of animality and even of the whole sensible world, at least so far as may be inferred from the destination assigned to my existence by this law, a destination not restricted to conditions and limits of this life, but reaching into the infinite.
Translated by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott
William Whewell (1794–1866) English philosopher & historian of science
The Elements of Morality, Book 1, ch. 1. (1845).
“I think we shall have to give the region a name. What do you propose?”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien book Leaf by Niggle
"The Porter settled that some time ago," said the Second Voice. "Train for Niggle's Parish in the bay."
Leaf by Niggle (1945)
Joe Clark (1939) 16th Prime Minister of Canada
1983 Progressive Conservative Leadership Convention speech, June 10, 1983.
“There is no solution to the conflict in this region except with the disappearance of Israel.”
Hassan Nasrallah (1960) Secretary General of Hezbollah
The Age. July 15, 2006 <br class="br">Quote, 2006 <br class="br">Source: Little choice for a defiant Israel http://www.theage.com.au/text/articles/2006/07/14/1152637865649.html.