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Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961) Austrian physicist
"The Mystic Vision" as translated in Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists (1984) edited by Ken Wilber
Context: It is not possible that this unity of knowledge, feeling and choice which you call your own should have sprung into being from nothingness at a given moment not so long ago; rather this knowledge, feeling, and choice are essentially eternal and unchangeable and numerically one in all men, nay in all sensitive beings. But not in this sense — that you are a part, a piece, of an eternal, infinite being, an aspect or modification of it... For we should then have the same baffling question: which part, which aspect are you? what, objectively, differentiates it from the others? No, but, inconceiveable as it seems to ordinary reason, you — and all other conscious beings as such — are all in all. Hence, this life of yours... is, in a certain sense, the whole... This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula... 'Tat tvam asi' — this is you. Or, again, in such words as 'I am in the east and in the west, I am below and above, I am this whole world.'
Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you … For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.
“One of my only regrets is that I was never able to fall in love.”
Dylann Roof (1994) American mass murderer
Journal found in his car
Dylann Roof (1994) American mass murderer
archived 20 June 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150620135047/http://lastrhodesian.com/data/documents/rtf88.txt on website registered 9 February 2015, published 21 June 2015 https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/us/dylann-storm-roof-photos-website-charleston-church-shooting.html in NYT, original date of authorship unknown
“I'm a drinker with writing problems.”
Brendan Behan (1923–1964) Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright
Annie Besant (1847–1933) British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator
Source: Esoteric Christianity, Or The Lesser Mysteries http://books.google.co.in/books?id=6Uk0AHHn-cgC&pg=PT8, p. 8
“In a man to man fight, the winner is he who has one more round within himself.”
Erwin Rommel (1891–1944) German field marshal of World War II
Den Kampf Mann gegen Mann gewinnt bei gleichwertigen Gegnern, wer eine Patrone mehr im Lauf hat.
Source: Infanterie greift an (1937), p. 62.
“What we need is not truths that serve us but a truth we may serve.”
Jacques Maritain (1882–1973) French philosopher
Source: Degrees of Knowledge (1932, Notre Dame Translation), p. 4.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: Letters to Russell, Keynes and Moore
“Stick to your own grammar, my lord, for it is much better.”
Richard I of England (1157–1199) English king
Richard on being corrected by the Bishop of Coventry; The Plantagenets - Harvey
John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer
Source: Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
Manuscript note, quoted at The Eric Hoffer Award official site http://www.hofferaward.com/
“Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!”
To a Mouse, st. 1 (1785)
Context: Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi' bickering brattle!
“The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
attributed to Muir by Linnie Marsh Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir (1945), page 331
1910s
“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.”
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
Once again, this is far from Muir's style of writing. The quote does not come up in any search of John Muir's Journals or his published texts on the John Muir Exhibit website. It is most commonly put on t-shirts - never in any scholarly source.
Misattributed
“No man knows what he can do until he tries.”
Carter G. Woodson book The Mis-Education of the Negro
Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro
“But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.”
Ajahn Chah (1918–1992) thai Buddhist monk