“Actual practice in individual flight presents the best prospects for developing our capacity until it leads to perfected free flight.”
The Romance of Aeronautics (1912)
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Otto Lilienthal16
German aviation pioneer 1848–1896Related quotes
“He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all”
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Die Romane sind die sokratischen Dialoge unserer Zeit. In diese liberale Form hat sich die Lebensweisheit vor der Schulweisheit geflüchtet.
Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), “Critical Fragments,” § 26
“Our snakes have shed their lightning,
our apes their flights of fancy”
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer
"An Unexpected Meeting"
Poems New and Collected (1998), Salt (1962)
Context: Our snakes have shed their lightning,
our apes their flights of fancy,
our peacocks have renounced their plumes.
The bats flew out of our hair long ago. We fall silent in mid-sentence,
all smiles, past help.
Our humans
don't know how to talk to one another.
“All my life l have sought the essence of flight. Flight — what bliss.”
Constantin Brâncuși (1876–1957) French-Romanian artist
Brâncuși cited in: Des Moines Art Center, Terry Ann R. Neff (1998) An Uncommon Vision. p. 66
Bill Engvall (1957) American comedian and actor
Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie (2003)
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