„We need a dream-world in order to discover the features of the real world we think we inhabit.“
— Paul Karl Feyerabend, Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
„It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.“
Henri Cartier-Bresson4
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„We do not need to go out and find love; rather, we need to be still and let love discover us.“
— John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
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„Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.“
— Archimedes Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer -287 - -212 p. n. e.
„There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.“
— William Barclay Church of Scotland minister and academic 1907 - 1978
„We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.“
— Carlos Castaneda Peruvian-American author 1925 - 1998
„Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.“
— Susan B. Anthony American women's rights activist 1820 - 1906
„However much we are affected by the things of the world, however deeply they may stir and stimulate us, they become human for us only when we can discuss them with our fellows. Whatever cannot become the object of discourse - the truly sublime, the truly horrible or the uncanny - may find human voice through which to sound into the world, but it is not exactly human. We humanize what is going on in the world and in ourselves only by speaking of it, and in the course of speaking of it we learn to be human.“
— Hannah Arendt, Men in Dark Times
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„Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.“
— Isaac Bashevis Singer Polish-born Jewish-American author 1902 - 1991
„A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.“
— Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin
volume I, chapter VI: "The Voyage", page 266 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=284&itemID=F1452.1&viewtype=image; letter to sister Susan Elizabeth Darwin (4 August 1836)
„This world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.“
— Swami Vivekananda Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher 1863 - 1902
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„We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.“
— Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
Context: We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they moved finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.
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„You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.“
— Marie Curie French-Polish physicist and chemist 1867 - 1934
Pierre Curie (1923), as translated by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, p. 168
„Man invented clothing to cover the superficial and to discover the inside.“
— Andrzej Majewski Polish writer and photographer 1966
„What a terrible mistake, thought Drogo, perhaps everything is like that — we think there are beings like ourselves around us and instead there is nothing but ice and stones speaking a strange language; we are on the point of greeting a friend but our arm falls inert, the smile dies away because we are completely alone.“
— Dino Buzzati, The Tartar Steppe