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- To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk.
- A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How…
- Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature
- The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural…
- Honestly, I cannot understand what people mean when they talk about the freedom of the human will. I have a feeling, for instance, that I…
- Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all…
- Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all…
- When we first got married, we made a pact. It was this: In our life together, it was decided I would make all of the…
- Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.
- All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all…
- We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.
- I find it difficult to believe that I belong to such an idiotic, rotten species - the species that actually boasts of its freedom of…
- For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions, and the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong…
- He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since…
- "Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem to characterize our age. If we desire sincerely and passionately the safety, the welfare and the free…
- But in physics I soon learned to scent out the paths that led to the depths, and to disregard everything else, all the many things…
- Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.
- Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by power and by force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the…
- Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied by the complete…
- If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it…
- I do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer's words: 'Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills,' accompany me in…
- I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.
- Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle