Through Words We Rule – Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder
“Through words we rule over the entire globe; through words we easily obtain all the treasures of the earth. Only the invisible, which hovers above us, words do not draw down into our minds.”
Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder
Dieter Eduard Zimmer: Thoughts and Language
“And only thoughts expressed in language can be communicated; all others perish with the one who thinks them.”
Dieter Eduard Zimmer
Healthy Mind in a Sound Body by Juvenal
“Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of death, deems length of life the least of nature’s gifts and is able to bear any kind of sufferings, knows neither wrath nor desire and believes the woes and hard labors of Hercules better than the loves and feasts and downy cushions of Sardanapalus. Reveal what you are able to give yourself; the only path to a life of tranquility lies through virtue.”
Juvenal
The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue – Juvenal
“The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue.”
Juvenal
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body – Juvenal
“Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.”
Juvenal
What Makes the Desert Beautiful – Quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Slang is language in turtlenecks and blue jeans – Thornton Niven Wilder
“Slang is language in turtlenecks and blue jeans.”
Thornton Niven Wilder
Fame and Gullibility – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Fame Is Proof That The People Are Gullible”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alvin Toffler on the Possibility of Human Cloning
“One of the more fantastic possibilities is that man will be able to make biological carbon copies of himself.”
Alvin Toffler
Marxism and Illusion – Michael John Novak Jr.
“To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists – the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador – are in absurd and tragic error is not difficult. Poles and Czechs and Hungarians can hardly believe, after what they experienced under socialism, that other human beings would fall for the same bundle of lies, half-truths, and distortions. Sadly, however, illusion is often sweeter to human taste than reality. The last marxist in the world will probably be an American nun.”
Michael John Novak Jr.