Quote by Niels Bohr on Language and Insight
“We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.”
Niels Bohr
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In the Great Drama of Existence – Quote by Niels Bohr
“In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.”
Niels Bohr
Quote by Niels Bohr on Unconventional Ideas and Hope
“If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.”
Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr Quote on Overcoming Difficulties
“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.”
Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr Quote on Predictions and the Future
“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.”
Niels Bohr
Anatoli Golizyn Quote on Soviet Strategy in the Cold War
“They [the Soviets] intend…to induce the Americans to adopt their own ‘restructuring’ and convergence of the Soviet and American systems using to this end the fear of nuclear conflict…. Convergence will be accompanied by blood baths and political re-education camps in Western Europe and the United States. The Soviet strategists are counting on an economic depression in the United States and intend to introduce their reformed model of socialism with a human face as an alternative to the American system during the depression.”
Anatoli Golizyn
Oswald Spengler Quote on Freedom and Thinking
“Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom.”
Oswald Spengler
Quote by Donald Pleasence on Compensation and Halloween
“I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film’s future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become.”
Donald Pleasence
Quote by Oswald Spengler on History and Human Happiness
“The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort-“happiness.” He who does not despise this should turn his eyes from world history, for it contains nothing of the sort. The best that history has created is great suffering.”
Oswald Spengler
Quote by Donald Pleasence about Overinterpretation
“I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.”
Donald Pleasence