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José Rizal (1861–1896) Filipino writer, ophthalmologist, polyglot and nationalist
Letter to Mariano Ponce, (1890)
“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”
Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer
“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Variant: A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Charles Manson (1934–2017) American criminal and musician
Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g-U2-cAUMM
“Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.”
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) Indian lawyer, statesman, and writer, first Prime Minister of India
As quoted in Al Arab Vol. 9 (1970) by the League of Arab States, p. 9
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
Bible Series V: Cain and Abel: The Hostile Brothers
Concepts
Cameron Diaz (1972) American actress
Human the movie: Cameron's interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-HvL3TSf-8 ( New York Post http://nypost.com/2015/12/17/cameron-diaz-fame-will-never-make-you-happy/)
John Cassian (360–435) Christian monk and theologian
The Conferences V.2 ( online http://books.google.com/books?id=k3CrvJJZkqEC&pg=PA44)
Karl Popper (1902–1994) Austrian-British philosopher of science
Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (1963)
Charan Singh (1902–1987) prime minister of India
His resentment of being born a Jat which expressed in a speech in 1977 p. 204
Profiles of Indian Prime Ministers
Francisco Palau (1811–1872) Beatified Spanish Discalced Carmelite friar and priest
Letter to Juana Gratia (1857)
Rich Mullins (1955–1997) American christian musician
Louisville, Kentucky http://www.kidbrothers.net/words/concert-transcripts/louisville-kentucky-jun2594.html (June 25, 1994) <br class="br">In Concert
“Creation does not cease
just because there is darkness!”
Suman Pokhrel (1967) Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist
<span class="plainlinks"> In Midnight Street http://www.prachyareview.com/poems-by-suman-pokhrel/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry
Witold Pilecki (1901–1948) World War II concentration camp leader and resistor
Source: Lawrence W. Reed, Witold Pilecki: Bravery Beyond Measure, 23 October 2015 https://fee.org/articles/he-volunteered-to-go-to-auschwitz/
Matka Tereza (1910–1997) Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin
National Prayer Breakfast speech, Washington, D.C. (3 February 1994) http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/abortion/ab0039.html. <br class="br">1990s
Zeno of Citium (-334–-263 BC) ancient Greek philosopher
As quoted in De Natura Deorum by Cicero, ii. 8.; iii. 9.
Dante Alighieri book Paradiso
Canto XIX, lines 58–63 (tr. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso
Andrea Dworkin (1946–2005) Feminist writer
Speech at Queen's College, City University of New York (March 12, 1975). "The Sexual Politics of Fear and Courage", ch. 5, published in Our Blood (1976).
“One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society.”
Michael Parenti (1933) American academic
4 POLITICAL THEORY AN CONSCIOUSNESS, Political Science Fiction, p. 231
Dirty truths (1996), first edition
Henri Bergson book An Introduction to Metaphysics
An Introduction to Metaphysics (1903), translated by T. E. Hulme. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1912, p. 44
Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher
Source: On the Mystical Body of Christ, p.436
Ali book Nahj al-Balagha
Nahj al-Balagha
Heinrich Himmler (1900–1945) Nazi officer, Commander of the SS
Our concern, our duty, is our people and our blood. We can be indifferent to everything else. I wish the S.S. to adopt this attitude towards the problem of all foreign, non-Germanic peoples, especially Russians....
The Posen speech to SS officers (6 October 1943)
1940s
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838) French diplomat
Qui n'a pas vécu dans les années voisines de 1789 ne sait pas ce que c'est le plaisir de vivre.
Reported in Memoirs pour Servir a l'histoire de nous Temps by François Guizot, Volume I, p. 6.
Sarada Devi (1853–1920) Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna
[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 312]
Anton LaVey (1930–1997) Founder of the Church of Satan, author of the Satanic Bible
" Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth http://www.churchofsatan.com/Pages/Eleven.html"
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter
Source: Peace of Soul (1949), Ch. 2, p. 20
Michael Parenti (1933) American academic
"The 1% Pathology And The Myth of Capitalism" October 19, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKyX7GNHYkQ&t=218
Anton LaVey book The Satanic Bible
The Satanic Bible (1969)
Richard Wurmbrand (1909–2001) Romanian Christian minister of Jewish descent
If Prison Walls Could Speak (1972)
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first President of Turkey
Original: Tarih yazmak, tarih yapmak kadar mühimdir. Yazan yapana sadık kalmazsa değişmeyen hakikat, insanlığı şaşırtacak bir mahiyet alır. <br class="br">Source: As quoted by Hasan Cemil Çambel in T.T.K. Belleten (1939), Vol: 3, no: 10, p. 272, Turkish Republic Ministry of Culture http://www.kultur.gov.tr/TR,25417/tarih.html
“When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.”
Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer
Sand and Foam (1926)
Sharon Tate (1943–1969) actress, victim of murder by Charles Manson followers
Quoted in Sharon Tate and the Manson Murders (2000), by Greg King
Kent Hovind (1953) American young Earth creationist
Isn't that what it says?
Creation seminars (2003-2005), The dangers of evolution
“Success doesn't change you; fame does.”
Whitney Houston (1963–2012) American singer, actress, model, and record producer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPItgCnamNg
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985), Address on the Strategic Defense Initiative (1983)
Context: The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor. We maintain our strength in order to deter and defend against aggression — to preserve freedom and peace.
Since the dawn of the atomic age, we have sought to reduce the risk of war by maintaining a strong deterrent and by seeking genuine arms control. Deterrence means simply this: Making sure any adversary who thinks about attacking the United States or our allies or our vital interests concludes that the risks to him outweigh any potential gains. Once he understands that, he won't attack. We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.
This strategy of deterrence has not changed. It still works. But what it takes to maintain deterrence has changed. It took one kind of military force to deter an attack when we had far more nuclear weapons than any other power; it takes another kind now that the Soviets, for example, have enough accurate and powerful nuclear weapons to destroy virtually all of our missiles on the ground. Now this is not to say that the Soviet Union is planning to make war on us. Nor do I believe a war is inevitable — quite the contrary. But what must be recognized is that our security is based on being prepared to meet all threats.
There was a time when we depended on coastal forts and artillery batteries because, with the weaponry of that day, any attack would have had to come by sea. Well, this is a different world and our defenses must be based on recognition and awareness of the weaponry possessed by other nations in the nuclear age.
We can't afford to believe that we will never be threatened. There have been two world wars in my lifetime. We didn't start them and, indeed, did everything we could to avoid being drawn into them. But we were ill-prepared for both — had we been better prepared, peace might have been preserved.
The Soviet Buildup For 20 years, the Soviet Union has been accumulating enormous military might. They didn't stop when their forces exceeded all requirements of a legitimate defensive capability. And they haven't stopped now.
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
Opium (1929)
Sophie Scholl (1921–1943) White Rose member
As quoted in O<sub>2</sub> : Breathing New Life Into Faith (2008) by Richard Dahlstrom, Ch. 4 : Artisans of Hope: Stepping into God's Kingdom Story, p. 63; this source is disputed as it does not cite an original document for the quote. It is also used in <i> The White Rose </i> (1991) by Lillian Garrett-Groag, a monologue during Sophie's interrogation.
Disputed
Context: The real damage is done by those millions who want to "survive." The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don't want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won't take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don't like to make waves — or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honor, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It's the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you'll keep it under control. If you don't make any noise, the bogeyman won't find you. But it's all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.
Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) Swiss mathematician
introduction to De Curvis Elasticis, Additamentum I to his Methodus Inveniendi Lineas Curvas Maximi Minimive Proprietate Gaudentes 1744; translated on pg10-11, "Leonhard Euler's Elastic Curves" https://www.dropbox.com/s/o09w82abgtftpfr/1933-oldfather.pdf, Oldfather et al 1933 <br class="br">Context: All the greatest mathematicians have long since recognized that the method presented in this book is not only extremely useful in analysis, but that it also contributes greatly to the solution of physical problems. For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect, and is the work of a most wise Creator, nothing whatsoever takes place in the universe in which some relation of maximum and minimum does not appear. Wherefore there is absolutely no doubt that every effect in the universe can be explained as satisfactorily from final causes, by the aid of the method of maxima and minima, as it can from the effective causes themselves. Now there exist on every hand such notable instances of this fact, that, in order to prove its truth, we have no need at all of a number of examples; nay rather one's task should be this, namely, in any field of Natural Science whatsoever to study that quantity which takes on a maximum or a minimum value, an occupation that seems to belong to philosophy rather than to mathematics. Since, therefore, two methods of studying effects in Nature lie open to us, one by means of effective causes, which is commonly called the direct method, the other by means of final causes, the mathematician uses each with equal success. Of course, when the effective causes are too obscure, but the final causes are more readily ascertained, the problem is commonly solved by the indirect method; on the contrary, however, the direct method is employed whenever it is possible to determine the effect from the effective causes. But one ought to make a special effort to see that both ways of approach to the solution of the problem be laid open; for thus not only is one solution greatly strengthened by the other, but, more than that, from the agreement between the two solutions we secure the very highest satisfaction.
Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician
"On the Principles of Political Morality that Should Guide the National Convention in the Domestic Administration of the Republic" (5 February 1784/18 Ploviôse Year 2)
Martin Luther book Table Talk
Source: Table Talk (1569), pp. 552-554 (1566); cited in Susan C. Karant-Nunn & Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks [editors and translators], Luther on Women: a Sourcebook, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 157-158)
“The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.”
Sitting Bull (1831–1890) Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man
GoodReads https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5712889.Sitting_Bull <br class="br">Attributed quotes
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister
1930s, Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (1932)
Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer
Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" (1992), Ch. 7 : Work, §3 : Personal Power, p. 190 (p. 165 in some editions). This famous passage from her book is very often erroneously attributed to Nelson Mandela. About the mis-attribution Williamson said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people."
Variant which appears in the film Coach Carter (2005): "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
Variant which appears in the film Akeelah and the Bee (2006), displayed in a picture frame on the wall, attributing it to Mandela: "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."
Jeff Foster (1980) Spiritual teacher
Source: https://www.lifewithoutacentre.com/writings/shockingly-simple-principles-of-spiritual-awakening/
Dante Alighieri book De Monarchia
Libri iii, Caput XIII, (XV.) emendati Johann Heinrich F. Karl Witte (1874) p. 25. https://www.google.com/books/edition/De_monarchia_libri_iii_emendati_per_C_Wi/_RhcAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA25&printsec=frontcover Translation as quoted by Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (1958) p. 175. https://archive.org/details/humancondition0000aren/page/175/mode/1up <br class="br">De Monarchia (1312-1313) <br class="br">Original: (la) Nam in omni actione principaliter intenditur ab agente, sive necessitate naturae, sive voluntarie agat, propriam similitudinem explicare, unde fit, quod omne agens, in quantum huiusmodi, delectatur; quia, quum omne quod est appetat suum esse, ac in agendo agentis esse quodammodo amplietur, sequiturde necessitate delectatio... Nihil igitur agit, nisi tale existens, quale patiens fieri debet...
Alexis Karpouzos (1967)
Source: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/14108295.alexis_karpouzos?page=2
“If the soul does not exist, then stop believing in life and death as well.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
“The sun does not set, nor rises, the sun is fixed at one single point.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
Gabriele Amorth (1925–2016) Italian Roman Catholic priest and exorcist
Source: "An Interview With Fr Gabriele Amorth - The Church's Leading Exorcist" (2001)
Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist
Quoted by William B. Whitman, The Quotable Politician p. 197.
Attributed
Source: By Any Means Necessary
“Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?”
Orhan Pamuk (1952) Turkish novelist, screenwriter, and Nobel Prize in Literature recipient
Source: My Name is Red
Michel Foucault book Discipline and Punish
Discipline and Punish (1977)
Source: Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Voice: Young Man
1840s, Repetition (1843)
Context: One sticks one’s finger into the soil to tell by the smell in what land one is: I stick my finger in existence — it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? How came I here? What is this thing called the world? What does this world mean? Who is it that has lured me into the world? Why was I not consulted, why not made acquainted with its manners and customs instead of throwing me into the ranks, as if I had been bought by a kidnapper, a dealer in souls? How did I obtain an interest in this big enterprise they call reality? Why should I have an interest in it? Is it not a voluntary concern? And if I am to be compelled to take part in it, where is the director? I should like to make a remark to him. Is there no director? Whither shall I turn with my complaint?
“Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not melt in one's bath.”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
George Soros (1930) Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
Source: The Alchemy of Finance
“Is the world crucified to you or does it fascinate you?”
Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994) British writer
“What does not kill him, makes him stronger.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Ecce homo
… was ihn nicht umbringt, macht ihn stärker
"Why I Am So Wise", 2
Cf. Twilight of the Idols (1888), "Maxims and Arrows", aphorism 8: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Ecce Homo (1888)
“Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.”
Frank Herbert (1920–1986) American writer
Neal A. Maxwell (1926–2004) Mormon leader
Variant: God does not begin by asking our ability, but more of our availability. When we prove our dependability, He will in crease our capability.
“A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.”
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
Source: The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution
“Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.”
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter
Source: Life Is Worth Living
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
“So does that mean you're going to fall in love with me again?
What makes you think i ever stopped?”
Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer
Source: Hidden Riches
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
Reflections on Gandhi (1949)
Source: In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950
Derek Prince (1915–2003) British missionary
“Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.”
Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979) German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist