Nikola Tesla Quote on Inventiveness and Money
“It is providential that the youth or man of inventive mind is not ‘blessed’ with a million dollars”
Nikola Tesla
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Quotes by Charles Wright Mills on Sociological Imagination and Social Structures
“What we experience in various and specific milieux, I have noted, is often caused by structural changes. Accordingly, to understand the changes of many personal milieux we are required to look beyond them. And the number and variety of such structural changes increase as the institutions within which we live become more embracing and more intricately connected with one another. To be aware of the idea of social structure and to use it with sensibility is to be capable of tracing such linkages among a great variety of milieux. To be able to do that is to possess the sociological imagination”
Charles Wright Mills
Quote by Charles Wright Mills on Objectivity and Stance
“I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.”
Charles Wright Mills
Quote by Charles Wright Mills on Intellectual Workers and Communication
“The means of effective communication are being expropriated from the intellectual worker.”
Charles Wright Mills
Alexander von Humboldt on Arab Science and Chemistry
“The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry ; a science for which this race created a new era.(…) Besides making laudatory mention of that which we owe to the natural science of the Arabs in both the terrestrial and celestial spheres, we must likewise allude to their contributions in separate paths of intellectual development to the general mass of mathematical science.”
Alexander von Humboldt
Quote About Vanity and Self-Love by Alexander von Humboldt
“The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.”
Alexander von Humboldt
Erich Fromm on Existence and Experiencing God
“We try to evade the question of existence with property, prestige, power, possession, production, fun, and, ultimately, by trying to forget that we- that I- exist. No matter how much he thinks of God or goes to church, or how much he believes in religious ideas , if he, the whole man, is deaf to the question of existence, if he does not have an answer to it, he is marking time, and he lives and dies like one of the million things he produces. He thinks of God, instead of experiencing God.”
Erich Fromm
“The End Does Not Justify the Means” – Quote by Ayn Rand
“The end does not justify the means. No one’s rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.”
Ayn Rand
Erich Fromm on Love, Narcissism, and Objectivity
“The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one’s narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one’s desires and fears.”
Erich Fromm
“No one ever told me …” – Quote by C. S. Lewis
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
C. S. Lewis