Johannes Grenzfurthner (1975) Austrian artist, writer, curator, and theatre and film director
from documentary Traceroute
page 119
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Johannes Grenzfurthner (1975) Austrian artist, writer, curator, and theatre and film director
from documentary Traceroute
“For why do you hasten to remove things that hurt your eyes, but if anything gnaws your mind, defer the time of curing it from year to year?”
Nam cur
quae laedunt oculum festinas demere; si quid
est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum?
Book I, epistle ii, lines 37–39; translation by C. Smart
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)
Heinrich Himmler (1900–1945) Nazi officer, Commander of the SS
Addressing Rudolph Höss, perhaps in July 1942, during a visit to Birkenau POW camp (Kriegsgefangenenlager), where the inmates' and guards' deficient living conditions were pointed out, from Höss's autobiography http://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com/2006/04/correction-corner-2-himmlers-visit-to.html written in a Polish prison, Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz, pp. 286ff. (1996) <br class="br">1940s
Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer
Advice to a young girl (22 June 1830)
“God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don't run after them.”
Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader