Short quotations about, something - Page 8

Eric Hoffer

You dehumanize a man as much by ret…

27 Apr , 2010  

You dehumanize a man as much by returning him to nature – by making him one with rocks, vegetation, and animals – as by turning him into a machine. Both the natural and the mechanical are the opposite of that which is uniquely human. Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated […]

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Dag Hammarskjold

You have never done enough, so long…

27 Apr , 2010  

You have never done enough, so long as it is still possible that you have something of value to contribute Great short quote and quotation by: Dag Hammarskjold , Swedish diplomat (1905 – 1961)

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Saint Bernard, Epistle

You will find something more in woo…

27 Apr , 2010  

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. Great short quote and quotation by: Saint Bernard, Epistle , French abbot & saint (1090 – 1153)

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Agatha Christie

Your travel life has the aspect of …

11 Jan , 2010  

Your travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing… But you are like the Vikings who […]

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Coco Chanel

Youth is something very new: twenty…

11 Jan , 2010  

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it. Great short quote and quotation by: Coco Chanel , French fashion designer & perfumer (1883 – 1971)

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Battaille

[F]or academic men to be happy, the…

11 Jan , 2010  

[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the […]

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