Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941) lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement
How to be happy though rich or poor (1930)
Letter to Christian Northoff (1497), as translated in Collected Works of Erasmus (1974), p. 114
Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941) lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement
How to be happy though rich or poor (1930)
“We are all afforded our physical existence so we can learn about ourselves.”
Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
William Alfred Fowler (1911–1995) American nuclear physicist
William A. Fowler's speech at the Nobel Banquet http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1983/fowler-speech.html, December 10, 1983.
Giacomo Balla (1871–1958) Italian artist
(Manuscript, 1913); as quoted at dekorera.tumblr: futurist manifesto of men's clothing http://dekorera.tumblr.com/post/3212646425/futurist-manifesto-of-mens-clothing-by-giacomo <br class="br">Futurist Manifesto of Men's clothing,' 1913/1914
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works
English and Welsh (1955)
Jean Piaget (1896–1980) Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher & academic
Source: The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932), Ch. 2 : Adult Constraint and Moral Realism <!-- p. 183 -->
Context: As Bovet has demonstrated in the field of morals, rules do not appear in the mind of the child as innate facts, but as facts that are transmitted to him by his seniors, and to which from his tenderest years he has to conform by means of a sui generis form of adaptation. This, of course, does not prevent some rules from containing more than others an element of rationality, thus corresponding to the deepest fundamental constants of human nature. But whether they be rational or simply a matter of usage and consensus of opinion, rules imposed on the childish mind by adult constraint do begin by presenting a more or less uniform character of exteriority and sheer authority. So that instead of passing smoothly from an early individualism (the "social" element of the first months is only biologically social, so to speak, inside the individual, and therefore individualistic) to a state of progressive cooperation, the child is from his first year onwards in the grip of coercive education which goes straight on and ends by producing what Claprède has so happily called a veritable "short circuit."
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
The Dagger with Wings (1926)
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
1920s, The Democracy of Sports (1924)