Joanne-owen Quote by Joanne Owen

“Along with astronomy and alchemy, collecting was what made Rudolf happy. He mistrusted people. He could hear them now. Whispering voices. Murmuring in the…

— Joanne Owen

“A man must consider what rich realms he abdicates when he becomes a conformist”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Wunderkammer or “wonder room”—what the English would call a cabinet of curiosities.”

— Donnie Eichar

“I had no power of withdrawing my person from a disgustful society, in the most cheerful and valuable part of the day; but I…

— William Godwin

“The man who had asked my name in Obersalzberg in the summer of 1934 had been a dominant personality excluding a spellbinding charisma to…

— Heinz Linge

“…In this way that he sought to control the very passage of his life, deftly and without forethought, yet precisely and with enormous care.…

— Jesse Ball

“These men wanted Hitler in a position to put an end to the Republic and to return Germany to the days of the Kaiser.…

— Ellen Marie Wiseman

“The modern absolutism, which we find the most natural thing in the world, would have been quite beyond the dreams of the most absolute…

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

“When conditions are such that life offers no earthly hope, somewhere somehow, men must find refuge. Then they fly from the terror without to…

— Edith Hamilton

“The Baron was one of Westphalia's most potent aristocrats, since his mansion boasted both a door and windows.”

— Voltaire

“It makes me wretched, Wilhelm, to think that there should be men incapable of appreciating the few things which possess a real value in…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“he believed with all his heart that Leopold’s system of rule constituted a unique form of evil. People in England’s ruling circles, therefore, could…

— Adam Hochschild