“If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer
Source: Path of Life (1909), p. 89
Original: La luminosità di una persona provoca decisamente più invidia delle cose materiali.
Source: prevale.net
“If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer
Source: Path of Life (1909), p. 89
Douglas Coupland (1961) Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and graphic designer
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“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
John Green book Paper Towns
Quentin "Q" Jacobsen, p. 282
Paper Towns (2008)
Diana Peterfreund (1979) American writer
Source: For Darkness Shows the Stars
Honoré de Balzac book Physiology of Marriage
Il est plus facile d'être amant que mari, par la raison qu'il est plus difficile d'avoir de l'esprit tous les jours que de dire de jolies choses de temps en temps.
Part I, Meditation V: Of the Predestined, aphorism LXIX.
Physiology of Marriage (1829)
Harold Chestnut (1917–2001) American engineer
Source: Systems Engineering Tools, (1965), p. vii; as cited in: Joseph E. Kasser (2010) " Seven systems engineering myths and the corresponding realities http://www.synergio.nl/media/59286/7_myths_of_se.pdf"
Isaac Newton book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
"Rules of Reasoning in Philosophy" : Rule I
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687)
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and the Poet (1983), p. 59
Context: Electromagnetic fields are not of the mind... Creation may be spiritual in origin, but that doesn't mean that everything created is spiritual. How can I explain such things to you? Let us accept the world is a mystery. Nature is neither solely material nor entirely spiritual. Man, too, is more than flesh and blood; otherwise, no religions would have been possible. Behind each cause is still another cause; the end or the beginning of all causes has yet to be found. Behind each cause is still another cause; the end or the beginning of all causes has yet to be found. Yet, only one thing must be remembered: there is no effect without a cause, and there is no lawlessness in creation".