Source: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
“The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.”
As quoted in International Herald Tribune (12 March 1990)
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Cesare Pavese
(1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
La difficoltà di commettere suicidio sta in questo: è un atto di ambizione che si può commettere solo quando si sia superata ogni ambizione.
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
Sergey Lavrov
(1950) Russian politician and Foreign Minister
"EU has become aggressive and bellicose amid Ukraine war, says Russia's Lavrov" https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/05/13/eu-has-become-aggressive-and-bellicose-amid-ukraine-war-says-russia-s-lavrov, Euronews, 13 May 2022
About the Russian invasion of Ukraine 2022
Albert Einstein
(1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Source: 1920s, p. 157 London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Response to atheist Alfred Kerr in the winter of 1927, who after deriding ideas of God and religion at a dinner party in the home of the publisher Samuel Fischer, had queried him "I hear that you are supposed to be deeply religious" as quoted in The Diary of a Cosmopolitan (1971) by H. G. Kessler
Context: Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious.
Johann Georg Hamann
(1730–1788) German philosopher
Socratic Memorabilia, J. Flaherty, trans. (Baltimore: 1967), p. 147.
Werner Erhard
(1935) Critical Thinker and Author
Interview with William Warren Bartley, cited in [Bartley, William Warren, w:William Warren Bartley, Werner Erhard: the Transformation of a Man: the Founding of est, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1978, New York, 302, 0-517-53502-5]
Jawaharlal Nehru
(1889–1964) Indian lawyer, statesman, and writer, first Prime Minister of India
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A Tryst With Destiny (1947)
Context: The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
And so we have to labour and to work, and work hard, to give reality to our dreams. Those dreams are for India, but they are also for the world, for all the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible; so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this One World that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.
“In truth, how much time do any of us really have?”
Lurlene McDaniel
(1944) American writer
Source: Telling Christina Goodbye
L. P. Jacks
(1860–1955) British educator, philosopher, and Unitarian minister
The Usurpation Of Language (1910)
Context: Though science makes no use for poetry, poetry is enriched by science. Poetry “takes up” the scientific vision and re-expresses its truths, but always in forms which compel us to look beyond them to the total object which is telling its own story and standing in its own rights. In this the poet and the philosopher are one. Using language as the lever, they lift thought above the levels where words perplex and retard its flight, and leave it, at last, standing face to face with the object which reveals itself.