Gaston Bachelard
@ A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition. [L'eau et les rêves (Water and Dreams) 1942]
@ Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. [The Psychoanalysis of Fire, ch. 2, "Fire and Reverie" (1938)]
@ To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water. [L'eau et les rêves (Water and Dreams) 1942]
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Frank James Cooper, known professionally as Gary Cooper, (May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961) was an American film actor. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited to the many Westerns he made. He also excelled in sophisticated, screwball romantic comedies. His career spanned from 1925 until shortly before his death in 1961, and comprised more than one hundred films.
Cooper received five Academy Award nominations for Best Actor, winning twice for Sergeant York and High Noon. He also received an Honorary Award in 1961 from the Academy.
Decades later, the American Film Institute named Cooper among the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars, ranking 11th among males from the Classical Hollywood cinema period. In 2003, his performances as Will Kane in High Noon, Lou Gehrig in The Pride of the Yankees, and Alvin York in Sergeant York made the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains list, all of them as heroes.
Quotes·Quotation by Gary Cooper
Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig from The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
¶ [his farewell speech] Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Cooper
Victor GAO
Victor Gao (高志凯)
Victor Zhikai Gao (Chinese: 高志凯; pinyin: Gāo Zhìkǎi) is a Chinese international relations expert and translator. He is a Director of the China National Association of International Studies and an Executive Director of Beijing Private Equity Association. He is best known for his position as the late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping's translator and currently an international expert on Chinese issues.
Quotes·Quotations by Victor Gao
Energy
¶ The Key is good speed, not great haste. [Sep 10, 2013]
Mahatma GANDHI (1869-1948)
Mahatma GANDHI (1869-1948)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (pronounced [ˈmoːɦənd̪aːs ˈkərəmtʃənd̪ ˈɡaːnd̪ʱi]; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi or Bapu (Father of Nation), was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India. Employing non-violent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for non-violence, civil rights, and freedom across the world.[2]
The son of a senior government official, Gandhi was born and raised[clarification needed] in a Bania[3] community in coastal Gujarat, and trained in law in London. Gandhi became famous by fighting for the civil rights of Muslim and Hindu Indians in South Africa, using new techniques of non-violent civil disobedience that he developed. Returning to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants to protest excessive land-taxes. A lifelong opponent of "communalism" (i.e. basing politics on religion) he reached out widely to all religious groups. He became a leader of Muslims protesting the declining status of the Caliphate. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, increasing economic self-reliance, and above all for achieving Swaraj—the independence of India from British domination.
Gandhi led Indians in protesting the national salt tax with the 400 km (250 mi) Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in demanding the British to immediately Quit India in 1942, during World War II. He was imprisoned for that and for numerous other political offences over the years. Gandhi sought to practice non-violence and truth in all situations, and advocated that others do the same. He saw the villages as the core of the true India and promoted self-sufficiency; he did not support the industrialisation programs of his disciple Jawaharlal Nehru. He lived modestly in a self-sufficient residential community and wore the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl, woven with yarn he had hand spun on a charkha. His chief political enemy in Britain was Winston Churchill,[4] who ridiculed him as a "half-naked fakir".[5] He was a dedicated vegetarian, and undertook long fasts as means of both self-purification and political mobilisation.
In his last year, unhappy at the partition of India, Gandhi worked to stop the carnage between Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs that raged in the border area between India and Pakistan. He was assassinated on 30 January 1948 by Nathuram Godse who thought Gandhi was too sympathetic to India's Muslims. 30 January is observed as Martyrs' Day in India. The honorific Mahatma ("Great Soul") was applied to him by 1914.[6] In India he was also called Bapu ("Father"). He is known in India as the Father of the Nation;[7] his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and world-wide as the International Day of Non-Violence. Gandhi's philosophy was not theoretical but one of pragmatism, that is, practising his principles in the moment. Asked to give a message to the people, he would respond, "My life is my message."[8]
Quotes·Quotations by Mahatma Gandhi
Beauty
¶ True beauty consists in purity of heart.
Communication
¶ Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Love
¶ Where there is love there is life.
Citations
[1]^ a b Gandhi, Rajmohan (2006), pp. 1–3.
[2]^ Pilisuk & Nagler (2011), pp. 306–307.
[3]^ "Bania". Britanica.com. Retrieved 1 April 2013. "The Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi belonged to a Gujarati Bania caste."
[4]^ Arthur Herman (2008). Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age. Random House Digital, Inc. p. 379.
[5]^ Richard Toye (2010). Churchill's Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made. Macmillan. pp. 176–7.
[6]^ Gandhi, Rajmohan (2006), Gandhi: the man, his people, and the empire, University of California Press, p. 172 Quote: "Addresses in Durban and Verulam referred to Gandhi as a 'Mahatma', 'great soul'. He was seen as a great soul because he had taken up the poor's cause. (p. 172)"
[7]^ Markovits, Claude (2006). Un-Gandhian Gandhi. Permanent Black. p. 59. ISBN 978-81-7824-155-5.
[8]^ Douglas Allen (2008). The Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi for the Twenty-First Century. Lexington Books. p. 34.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi
Galadriel (The Lord of the Rings)
Galadriel (The Lord of the Rings)
Galadriel is a character created by J.R.R. Tolkien, appearing in his Middle-earth legendarium. She appears in The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and Unfinished Tales.
She was a royal Elf of both the Noldor and the Teleri, being a grandchild of both King Finwë and King Olwë, and was also close kin of King Ingwë of the Vanyar through her grandmother Indis. She was one of the leaders in the rebellion of the Noldor and their flight from Valinor during the First Age, and she was the only prominent Noldo to return at the end of the Third Age. Towards the end of her stay in Middle-earth she was co-ruler of Lothlórien with her husband, Lord Celeborn, and was referred to variously as the Lady of Lórien, the Lady of the Galadhrim, the Lady of Light, or the Lady of the Golden Wood. Her daughter Celebrían was the wife of Elrond and mother of Arwen, Elladan and Elrohir.
Tolkien describes Galadriel as "the mightiest and fairest of all the Elves that remained in Middle-earth" (after the death of Gil-galad) and the "greatest of elven women"
Quotes·Quotations by Galadriel
Future
¶ Even the smallest people in the world can change the course of the future.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Galadriel
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924)
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Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924)
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was an English-American playwright and author. She is best known for her children's stories, in particular Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885-6), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).
Frances Eliza Hodgson was born in Cheetham, near Manchester, England. After her father died in 1852, the family eventually fell on straitened circumstances and in 1865 emigrated to the United States, settling near Knoxville, Tennessee. There, Frances began writing to help earn money for the family, publishing stories in magazines from the age of 19. In 1870 her mother died and in 1872 she married Swan Burnett, who became a medical doctor after which they lived in Paris for two years where their two sons were born before returning to the US to live in Washington D.C. There she began to write novels, the first of which (That Lass o' Lowries), was published to good reviews. Little Lord Fauntleroy was published in 1886 and made her a popular writer of children's fiction, although her romantic adult novels written in the 1890s were also popular. She wrote and helped to produce stage versions of Little Lord Fauntleroy and A Little Princess.
Burnett enjoyed socializing and lived a lavish lifestyle. Beginning in the 1880s, she began to travel to England frequently and bought a home there in the 1890s where she wrote The Secret Garden. Her oldest son, Lionel, died of tuberculosis in 1892, which caused a relapse of the depression she struggled with for much of her life. She divorced Swan Burnett in 1898 and married Stephen Townsend in 1900, and divorced him in 1902. Towards the end of her life she settled in Long Island, where she died in 1924 and is buried in Roslyn Cemetery, on Long Island.
In 1936 a memorial sculpture by Bessie Potter Vonnoh was erected in her honour in Central Park's Conservatory Garden. The statue depicts her two famous Secret Garden characters, Mary and Dickon.
Quotes·Quotations by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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¶ "Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like...?"
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Hodgson_Burnett
János Arany (1817-1882)
János Arany (1817-1882)
János Arany (2 March 1817 – 22 October 1882) was a Hungarian writer and poet. He is often said to be the "Shakespeare of ballads" – he wrote more than 40 ballads which have been translated into over 50 languages, as well as the Toldi trilogy.
Ability
@ Álomban és szerelemben nincs lehetetlenség.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
János Arany, As quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893) by James Wood, p. 11
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J%C3%A1nos_Arany
János Arany (2 March 1817 – 22 October 1882) was a Hungarian writer and poet. He is often said to be the "Shakespeare of ballads" – he wrote more than 40 ballads which have been translated into over 50 languages, as well as the Toldi trilogy.
Ability
@ Álomban és szerelemben nincs lehetetlenség.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
János Arany, As quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893) by James Wood, p. 11
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J%C3%A1nos_Arany
Dawn French (1957- )
Dawn French (1957- )
Dawn Roma French[1] (born 11 October 1957) is an English actress, writer, and comedian, best known for starring in and writing for the comedy sketch show French and Saunders with comedy partner Jennifer Saunders and for playing the lead role as Geraldine Granger in the sitcom The Vicar of Dibley. Dawn has been nominated for seven BAFTA Awards and also won a Fellowship BAFTA with Saunders.
References
[1]^ "Dawn French: I just had a lot of fun" Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 11 May 2007.
Quotes·Quotations by Dawn French
Arts
¶ If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche ( /ˈniːtʃə/; German pronunciation: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈniːtsʃə]; October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a 19th-century German philosopher, poet, composer and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism.
Nietzsche's influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism, nihilism and postmodernism. His style and radical questioning of the value and objectivity of truth have resulted in much commentary and interpretation, mostly in the continental tradition. His key ideas include the death of God, perspectivism, the Übermensch, amor fati, the eternal recurrence, and the will to power. Central to his philosophy is the idea of "life-affirmation", which involves an honest questioning of all doctrines that drain life's expansive energies, however socially prevalent those views might be.
Nietzsche began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. In 1869, at the age of 24 he was appointed to the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel (the youngest individual to have held this position), but resigned in the summer of 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life. In 1889 he became mentally ill with what was then characterized as atypical general paresis attributed to tertiary syphilis, a diagnosis that has since come into question. He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother until her death in 1897, then under the care of his sister until his death in 1900.
Quotes·Quotations by Friedrich Nietzsche
Attitudes
¶ Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Politics·Government
¶ A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
Sea
¶ When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you.
Son
¶ What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
Woman
¶ Woman was God's second mistake.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche
Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)
Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller [ˈjoːhan ˈkʁɪstɔf ˈfʁiːdʁɪç fɔn ˈʃɪlɐ] (10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805) was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. They frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics, and Schiller encouraged Goethe to finish works he left as sketches. This relationship and these discussions led to a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism. They also worked together on Xenien, a collection of short satirical poems in which both Schiller and Goethe challenge opponents to their philosophical vision.
Quotes·Quotation
Beauty
¶ Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Christoph_Friedrich_von_Schiller
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