— Mary Renault, libro The Charioteer
Phaedrus by Plato, as translated in the novel, p. 104
The Charioteer (1953)
„Man develops his way of anticipating events by construing, by scratching out his channels of thought. Thus he builds his own maze. His runways are the constructs he forms, each a two-way street, each essentially a pair of alternatives between which he can choose.“
George A. Kelly, "Man's construction of his alternatives." Assessment of human motives (1958): 33-64.
George Kelly1
psicologo, matematico e pedagogista statunitense 1905 - 1967Citazioni simili
— Mahatma Gandhi pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India 1869 - 1948
The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi "Enlightened Anarchy - A Political Ideal" Volume 74 p. 380.
1930s
Contesto: Political power, in my opinion, cannot be our ultimate aim. It is one of the means used by men for their all-round advancement. The power to control national life through national representatives is called political power. Representatives will become unnecessary if the national life becomes so perfect as to be self-controlled. It will then be a state of enlightened anarchy in which each person will become his own ruler. He will conduct himself in such a way that his behaviour will not hamper the well-being of his neighbours. In an ideal State there will be no political institution and therefore no political power. That is why Thoreau has said in his classic statement that "that government is the best which governs the least". [From Hindi] Sarvodaya, January, 1939
„Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.“
— Haruki Murakami, libro Kafka sulla spiaggia
Origine: Kafka on the Shore
— Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist 1844 - 1900
— George MacDonald Scottish journalist, novelist 1824 - 1905
Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 257
Contesto: God Himself — His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men's home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will, to judge His judgments, and thus to know that He is in us, with us, is to be at home. And to pass through the valley of the shadow of death is the way home, but only thus, that as all changes have hitherto lead us nearer to this home, the knowledge of God, so this greatest of all outward changes — for it is but an outward change — will surely usher us into a region where there will be fresh possibilities of drawing nigh in heart, soul, and mind to the Father of us all.
— Leslie Weatherhead English theologian 1893 - 1976
Preface, p. 21, sentence 7.
The Christian Agnostic (1965)
„Let each man have the wit to go his own way.“
Unus quisque sua noverit ire via.
— Propertius Latin elegiac poet -47 - -14 a.C.
II, xxv, 38.
Elegies
— James Madison 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817) 1751 - 1836
Federalist No. 10
1780s, Federalist Papers (1787–1788)
— Tracey Emin English artist, one of the group known as Britartists or Young British Artists 1963
The Independent on Sunday http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/features/article350884.ece 2005-03-12. Accessed 2006-03-19.
On artist Damien Hirst.
— Horace Bushnell American theologian 1802 - 1876
Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 106.
— Marvin Minsky American cognitive scientist 1927 - 2016
Jokes and their Relation to the Cognitive Unconscious (1980)
— Edwin H. Land American scientist and inventor 1909 - 1991
Generation of Greatness (1957)
Contesto: I believe that each young person is different from any other who has ever lived, as different as his fingerprints: that he could bring to the world a wonderful and special way of solving unsolved problems, that in his special way, he can be great. Now don't misunderstand me. I recognize that this merely great person, as distinguished from the genius, will not be able to bridge from field to field. He will not have the ideas that shorten the solution of problems by hundreds of years. He will not suddenly say that mass is energy, that is genius. But within his own field he will make things grow and flourish; he will grow happy helping other people in his field, and to that field he will add things that would not have been added, had he not come along.
— Jane Roberts American Writer 1929 - 1984
Session 396, Page 197
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 8
