Once I had a list of quotations on a social network
website. I used to publish there my weekly blog, too. However, the number of
members and visitors of that website diminished gradually and the webmaster
decided to discontinue it. How pity, for I met a lot of nice people there and I
got also many comments on my blogs. My blogs can still be read here on blogspot.com,
but the list of quotations had gone. I am a bit sorry for it, so I decided to
publish them here as my blog for this week. Some quotations are not completely
new for the readers of this blog in the sense that I have used them here before.
Do you mind? Good thoughts cannot be repeated too often, so here they are,
without comments:
"No
man shall be interfered with on account of his religion, and any one is to be
allowed to go over to any religion he pleases" (Akbar, Indian Moghul
Emperor, Muslim,1542-1605)
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"Se battre
pour le prestige, pour le honneur, c'est se battre littéralement pour
rien" (Fighting for prestige, for honour, is litteraly fighting for
nothing) (René Girard)
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“We feel
that even if all possible scientific questions have been answered, our problems
of life have still not been touched at all.” (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
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“We should
not take the absence of the word to be equivalent to the absence of thought”
(Martha C. Nussbaum)
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“Every
society as a whole learns that happiness cannot be equated with development”
(Michel de Certeau)
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"C'est une
dangereuse invention que celle des gehenes, et semble que ce soit plustost un
essay de patience que de vérité."
“The
putting men to the rack is a dangerous invention, and seems to be rather a
trial of patience than of truth."
Montaigne
on torture.
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“War is
always more popular with those who don’t experience it” (Mark Kurlansky)
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“If you
start a man killing, you cannot turn him off like a machine” (Guy Chapman)
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"The
more violence, the less revolution" (Bart de Ligt, 1883-1938)
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“Tuer un homme,
ce n’est pas défendre une doctrine, c’est tuer un homme” (Castellio, 1515-1563)
"Killing
a man is not defending a doctrine, it is killing a man".
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“Does it
never strikes you as puzzling that it is wicked to kill one person, but
glorious to kill ten thousand?” (L.F. Richardson)
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Instead of
"Cogito ergo sum" - "I think, therefore I am" (Descartes) I
would rather say "Sum ergo cogito" - "I am, therefore I
think". (myself- HbdW)
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"Parce
que c'etait lui, parce que c'etait moi" (Because it was he, because it was
I)
Montaigne's definition
of friendship
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