“The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“What is most personal is most universal.”
Source: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
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“Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven.”
Jennifer McMahon (1968) American writer
Source: Island of Lost Girls
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
Francisco De Goya (1746–1828) Spanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828)
the announcement in the paper of 6. Feb. 1799 was necessary because Goya was unable to find regular bookshops to sell the Capricho-prints. That year 300 sets were printed, which meant 24.000 prints!! - without the mis-prints and proof-prints.
The Caprichos was the name of a serie of eigthy prints that Goya entitled 'Los Caprichos'; Goya made them in a combination of regular etching & aquatint technique. Etching gave lines by scratching with needles in the copper-plate. Aquatint gave fields of flat watercolor wash, a uniform tone composed of tiny grains and speckles rather than lines (as Robert Hughes explains) in the same book, p. 176-177/207-208)
1790s, Goya's announcement about 'Los Caprichos', 6 Febr. 1799
“We Germans are the most universal, the most European people of Europe.”
Moses Hess (1812–1875) German philosopher
Ibid
Die europäische Triarchie (The European Triarchy)
Martin Heidegger book Being and Time
Introduction: The Exposition of the Question of the Meaning of Being (Stambaugh translation)
Being and Time (1927)
“The most unpresentable persons are generally the most interesting.”
Teresa de la Parra (1889–1936) Venezuelan novelist
Source: Las memorias de Mamá Blanca
Temple Grandin (1947) USA-american doctor of animal science, author, and autism activist
Page 282 of An Anthropologist On Mars By Oliver Sacks
“It's the most powerful stuff in the universe.”
John Jakes (1932) American historical novelist and fantasy writer
North and South Trilogy (1982-1987), Answer the Drum
Context: "Iron can destroy anything: families, fortunes, governments, whole countries. It's the most powerful stuff in the universe."
"Oh?" Orry's skeptical glance fell down on the Plain below. "You really think it's more powerful than a big army?"
"Without weapons - without this - there are no big armies."