Daniel Keyes citáty
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Datum narození: 9. srpen 1927
Datum úmrtí: 15. červen 2014
Daniel Keyes byl americký spisovatel.
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Citáty Daniel Keyes
„I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.“
— Daniel Keyes, kniha Růže pro Algernon
Zdroj: Flowers for Algernon
„Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you.“
— Daniel Keyes, kniha Růže pro Algernon
Zdroj: Flowers for Algernon
„How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibilty, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes—how such people think nothing of abusing a man with low intelligence.“
— Daniel Keyes, kniha Růže pro Algernon
Zdroj: Flowers for Algernon
„Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.“
— Daniel Keyes, kniha Růže pro Algernon
Zdroj: Flowers for Algernon
„Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love.“
— Daniel Keyes, kniha Růže pro Algernon
Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Kontext: Don't misunderstand me," I said. "Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.
„I am not only a thing, but also a way of being“
— Daniel Keyes, kniha Růže pro Algernon
one of many ways — and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.
Flowers for Algernon (1966)
„Intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing.“
— Daniel Keyes, kniha Růže pro Algernon
Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Kontext: Intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know now there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
„Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis.“
— Daniel Keyes, kniha Růže pro Algernon
Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Kontext: Don't misunderstand me," I said. "Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.
„It's amazing the way things, apparently disconnected, hang together.“
— Daniel Keyes, kniha Růže pro Algernon
Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Kontext: My most absorbing interests at the present time are etymologies of ancient languages, the newer works on the calculus of variations, and Hindu history. It's amazing the way things, apparently disconnected, hang together.
„You've got to find the answer inside you — feel the right thing to do.“
— Daniel Keyes, kniha Růže pro Algernon
Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Kontext: The answer can't be found in books — or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you — feel the right thing to do.
„Now I understand one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.“
— Daniel Keyes, kniha Růže pro Algernon
Zdroj: Flowers for Algernon (1966)
„I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.“
— Daniel Keyes, kniha Růže pro Algernon
Zdroj: Flowers for Algernon (1966)
„That's the thing about human life--there is no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.“
— Daniel Keyes, kniha Růže pro Algernon
Zdroj: Flowers for Algernon
