„Non prendere la vita troppo sul serio, tanto non ne uscirai vivo.“
— Elbert Hubbard
A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911
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Elbert Hubbard
Data di nascita: 19. Giugno 1856
Data di morte: 7. Maggio 1915
Altri nomi:Elbert Green Hubbard
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Elbert Green Hubbard è stato uno scrittore, filosofo e artista statunitense.
Autori simili
Buckminster Fuller5
inventore, designer, architettoRoy Lichtenstein5
artista statunitenseBruce Lee51
attore, artista marziale e filosofo statunitenseRalph Waldo Emerson88
filosofo, scrittore e saggista statunitenseGustave Thibon23
filosofo e scrittore franceseRoberto Antoni11
scrittore, cantante e attore italianoAdriano Pessina37
filosofo e scrittore italianoFlorence Scovel Shinn3
illustratrice e scrittrice statunitenseFrasi Elbert Hubbard
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„A ripensarci bene, anch'io non sono completamente d'accordo con me stesso. Non tutto quello che ho scritto ieri mi trova d'accordo oggi. Sono felice di sapere qual è il suo punto di vista in merito a questa faccenda. trascrizione approssimativa“
— Elbert Hubbard
citato in Dale Carnagie, Come trattare gli altri e farseli amici, traduzione di M. Marazza, Bompiani, 2001
„Un amico è qualcuno che ti conosce completamente e ancora ti piace.“
— Elbert Hubbard
Note Book of Elbert Hubbard - Pagina 112, Elbert Hubbard - Kessinger Publishing, 1998, ISBN 0766104168
„Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing, and you'll never be criticized.“
— Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Vol. 3: American Statesmen
John North Willys (as reprinted in Elbert Hubbard's Selected Writings, Part 2 (1998), pp. 331–337, Roycrofters, 1922).
„Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.“
— Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days
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„Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.“
— Elbert Hubbard
Context: Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth. The intellectual kings of the earth have seldom been college-bred.
Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters (1899), p. 186.
„I believe that brutality tends to defeat itself.“
— Elbert Hubbard
Context: I believe that brutality tends to defeat itself. Prizefighters die young, gourmands get the gout, hate hurts worse the man who nurses it, and all selfishness robs the mind of its divine insight, and cheats the soul that would know. Mind alone is eternal. He, watching over Israel, slumbers not nor sleeps. My faith is great: out of the transient darkness of the present the shadows will flee away, and Day will yet dawn. I am an Anarchist.
„By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college of the land.“
— Elbert Hubbard
Context: The point I wish to make is this: McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia; Rowan took the letter & did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing — "Carry a message to Garcia!"
„A careful analyst might here say that Plan Number Three is only a variation of Plan Number Two — the end being gained by hypnotic effects in either event“
— Elbert Hubbard
Context: There have always existed three ways of keeping the people loving and loyal. One is to leave them alone, to trust them and not to interfere. This plan, however, has very seldom been practised, because the politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked, and something must be done to make it stand quiet.
So they try Plan Number Two, which consists in hypnotizing the public by means of shows, festivals, parades, prizes and many paid speeches, sermons and editorials, wherein and whereby the public is told how much is being done for it, and how fortunate it is in being protected and wisely cared for by its divinely appointed guardians. Then the band strikes up, the flags are waved, three passes are made, one to the right and two to the left; and we, being completely under the hypnosis, hurrah ourselves hoarse.
Plan Number Three is a very ancient one and is always held back to be used in case Number Two fails. It is for the benefit of the people who do not pass readily under hypnotic control. If there are too many of these, they have been known to pluck up courage and answer back to the speeches, sermons and editorials. Sometimes they refuse to hurrah when the bass-drum plays, in which case they have occasionally been arrested for contumacy and contravention by stocky men, in wide-awake hats, who lead the strenuous life. This Plan Number Three provides for an armed force that shall overawe, if necessary, all who are not hypnotized. The army is used for two purposes — to coerce disturbers at home, and to get up a war at a distance, and thus distract attention from the troubles near at hand. Napoleon used to say that the only sure cure for internal dissension was a foreign war: this would draw the disturbers away, on the plea of patriotism, so they would win enough outside loot to satisfy them, or else they would all get killed, it really didn't matter much; and as for loot, if it was taken from foreigners, there was no sin.
A careful analyst might here say that Plan Number Three is only a variation of Plan Number Two — the end being gained by hypnotic effects in either event, for the army is conscripted from the people to use against the people, just as you turn steam from a boiler into the fire-box to increase the draft....
Vol. XIV: Great Musicians, http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20318 Chapter 8: "Ludwig van Beethoven," pp. 228-230:
