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«Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction.»
Author: E. F. Schumacker
| About:
Ability,
Intelligence
| Keywords:
bigger, complex, complexes, direction, genius, intelligent, move in, opposite, touch, violent
«Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.»
«A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied»
Author: Cyril Connolly
| About:
Life,
Reason
| Keywords:
balanced, bout, bouts, drives, irrational, occasional, require, violent
«Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.»
«Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Genius,
Mediocrity,
Mind,
Spirit
| Keywords:
encountered, Great Spirit, mediocre, opposition, spirits, violent
«As in nature, things move violently to their place and calmly in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
calm, calmly, settled, violent, violently
«Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Wisdom
| Keywords:
courageous, loves, mocking, that is, untroubled, violent, wants, warrior, wisdom, woman
«A weak man is just an accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.»
«Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.»
«Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
come in, emotional, explosive, explosives, extremely, guilt, jealousy, occasions, potent, precipitate, precipitated, precipitates, precipitating, remorse, seize, sudden, Sudden Fear, violent
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