“No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.”
Max Planck (1858–1947) German theoretical physicist
Max Müller, as quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899) by James Wood
Misattributed
“Although I think that life may be the result of an accident, I do not think that of consciousness.”
Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961) Austrian physicist
As quoted in The Observer (11 January 1931); also in Psychic Research (1931), Vol. 25, p. 91
Contesto: Although I think that life may be the result of an accident, I do not think that of consciousness. Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.
“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.”
Viktor E. Frankl (1905–1997) Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor
Origine: book Man's Search For Meaning
“What is to give light must endure burning.”
Viktor E. Frankl (1905–1997) Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor
“You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.”
Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) Austrian esotericist
“Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.”
Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) Austrian esotericist
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
Origine: 1980s, That Benediction is Where You Are (1985), p. 18
Contesto: From childhood we are trained to have problems. When we are sent to school, we have to learn how to write, how to read, and all the rest of it. How to write becomes a problem to the child. Please follow this carefully. Mathematics becomes a problem, history becomes a problem, as does chemistry. So the child is educated, from childhood, to live with problems — the problem of God, problem of a dozen things. So our brains are conditioned, trained, educated to live with problems. From childhood we have done this. What happens when a brain is educated in problems? It can never solve problems; it can only create more problems. When a brain that is trained to have problems, and to live with problems, solves one problem, in the very solution of that problem, it creates more problems. From childhood we are trained, educated to live with problems and, therefore, being centred in problems, we can never solve any problem completely. It is only the free brain that is not conditioned to problems that can solve problems. It is one of our constant burdens to have problems all the time. Therefore our brains are never quiet, free to observe, to look. So we are asking: Is it possible not to have a single problem but to face problems? But to understand those problems, and to totally resolve them, the brain must be free.
Louis Riel (1844–1885) Canadian politician
Letter from Batoche, N.W. T. to The Irish World (6 May 1885), also published as " An Appeal for Justice" in The Gibbet of Regina : The Truth about Riel, Sir John A. Macdonald and His Cabinet Before Public Opinion, by One who Knows (1886) by One who knows, Napoléon Thompson, p. 186
Contesto: In a little while it will be all over. We may fail. But the rights for which we contend will not die. A day of reckoning will come to our enemies and of jubilee to my people. The hated yoke of English domination and arrogance will be broken in this land, and the long-suffering victims of their injustice will, with God's blessing, re-enter into the peaceful enjoyment of their possessions.
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate
Misattributed
“Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse”
Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate
“If there is any substitute for love, it is memory.”
Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate
“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.”
George Bernard Shaw John Bull's Other Island
Act II
Origine: 1900s, John Bull's Other Island (1907)
George Bernard Shaw Uomo e superuomo
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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Origine: Man and Superman
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Variante: Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Samuel Beckett libro Worstward Ho
Worstward Ho (1983)
Variante: Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Contesto: All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
