„The idea of Plato that philosophers must be the rulers and directors of society is practiced in India.“
— Sarvepalli Rádhakrišnan, Indian Philosophy, Volume 1
Sarvepalli Rádhakrišnan2
indický filozof a státník, 2. prezident Indie 1888 - 1975Podobné citáty
„Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.“
— James Cameron Canadian film director 1954
„To live outside the law, you must be honest.“
— Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941
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„Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?“
— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994
„The blood of the heroes is closer to God than the ink of the philosophers and the prayers of the faithful.“
— Julius Evola Italian philosopher and esotericist 1898 - 1974
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„Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in... A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice.“
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Russian writer 1918 - 2008
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„I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.“
— Bruce Lee Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker 1940 - 1973
„Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.“
— Jonathan Edwards Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian 1703 - 1758
„The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through reincarnation; mankind's deep suffering is rooted in identifying too closely with one's current role, rather than with the movie's director, or God.“
— Paramahansa Yogananda Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship 1893 - 1952
„Every society is three meals away from chaos“
— Vladimir Lenin Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870 - 1924
„To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.“
— Theodore Roosevelt American politician, 26th president of the United States 1858 - 1919
„Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences...“
— Susan B. Anthony American women's rights activist 1820 - 1906
„Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.“
— Alan Moore English writer primarily known for his work in comic books 1953
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