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“Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.” - Paul Valéry
Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry, often shortened to Paul Valéry, was born on 30 October 1871 in Sète, France. He became an essayist, an aphorist, and a poet. Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry passed on at 73 years of age on 20 July 1945 in Paris, France.
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“A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.” -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.” -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was born as Maria Ludwig Michael Mies on 27 March 1886 in Aachen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (now Aachen, Germany). He became an architect and a furniture stylist. He became an American citizen in 1944. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe passed on at 83 years of age on 17 August 1969 in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.
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“Happiness is inward and not outward, and so it does not depend on what we have but on what we are.” -Henry van Dyke
Not to the swift, the race.
Not to the strong, the fight.
-Henry van Dyke
“There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.” -Henry van Dyke
“Weather means more when you have a garden. There’s nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in and around your lettuce and green beans.” -Henry van Dyke
Henry Jackson van Dyke, Junior was born on 10 November 1852. He was an American clergyman, educator, short story writer, poet, and essayist. Henry Jackson van Dyke, Junior passed on at 80 years of age on 10 April 1933.
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“It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.” -Arthur H. Vandenberg
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“Each day, focus your attention on what you want. Each day, take one step that will bring you closer to it. All things are possible! The key is to identify it, claim it for yourself, and believe that you are worthy to have it.” -Iyanla Vanzant
Iyanla Vanzant was born as Rhonda Eva Harris on 13 September 1953 in Brooklyn, New York, United States of America. She is a professional speaker and a writer.
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“Money can’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.” -Bill Vaughan
William Edward ‘Bill’ Vaughan was born on 8 October 1915 in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America. He became a syndicated newspaper columnist (1946 - 1977) for the Kansas City “Star” under the heading “Starbeams.” His writing was published in the “Reader’s Digest” and “Better Homes and Gardens” magazines under the pseudonym Burton Hillis. William Edward ‘Bill’ Vaughan passed on at 61 years on age on 25 February 1977.
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“Let him who desires peace prepare for war.” -Vegetius
“In time of peace prepare for war.” -Vegetius
“The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.” -Vegetius
Flavius Vegetius Renatus, also known simply as Vegetius, was a military expert of ancient Rome.
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“Believe one who has tried it.” [English translation]
“Trust one who has proved it.” [variant English translation]
“Experto credite.” [original Latin]
-Vergil
“Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.” [English translation]
“Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.” [original Latin]
-Vergil: “The Aeneid” (about 29 B.C.E. - 19 B.C.E.), book 1, line 203
“The greatest wealth is health.” -Vergil
“Time bears all away, even memory.” [English translation]
“Omnia fert aetas, animum quoque.” [original Latin]
-Vergil: “Ecloga,” book 9, line 51
“Too happy would you be, did you but know your own advantages!” -Vergil
“We journey on in life through varied hazards and misfortunes.” -Vergil
Publius Vergilius Maro, also known as Vergil or Virgil, was born in 70 B.C.E. He became a writer and a poet of ancient Rome. He is known for three major works of Latin literature: the “Eclogues,” the “Georgics,” and the epic “Aeneid.” Publius Vergilius Maro passed at about 51 years of age on in 19 B.C.E.
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“We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.” -Paolo Veronese
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“I was reading a book . . . ‘The History of Glue’ - I couldn’t put it down.” -Tim Vine
Timothy Mark ‘Tim’ Vine was born in 1967.
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“If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.” -David Viscott
“The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.” -David Viscott
“To love and be loved is to feel the Sun from both sides.” -David Viscott
David Steven Viscott was born on 24 May 1938 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became a psychiatrist and a writer. David Steven Viscott pass on at 58 years of age on 10 October 1996 in Studio City, California, United States of America.
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“Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.” -Karl von Clausewitz
Karl von Clausewitz was born in 1780. Karl von Clausewitz passed on in 1831.
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“Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.” -Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
“Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.” -Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: as quoted in D. Scrase and W. Mieder, translators: “Aphorisms” (1994), page 29
“The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.” -Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, also known as Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, was born on 13 September 1830. She became an Austrian novelist. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach passed on at 85 years of age on 12 March 1916.
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“A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A person hears only what he understands.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Contradiction and flattery both make poor conversation.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Everything that happens to us leaves some trace behind; everything contributes imperceptibly to make us what we are.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Fools and wise men are equally harmless It is the half-fools and the half-wise that are dangerous.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“. . . he alone is great and happy who requires neither to command nor to obey in order to secure being of some importance in the world.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Gotz Von Berlichingen” (1773)
“How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflections? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then shalt thou know what is in thee.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and that its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the Sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set in night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If you treat an individual as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world, all rests on perseverance.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“‘Know thyself’? If I knew myself, I’d run away.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Knowing is not enough; we must act. Willing is not enough; we must do.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Let us not forget that a man can never get away from himself.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Life is the childhood of our immortality.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Torquato Tasso” (1790), Part 1, line 2
“The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Thinking is more interesting than knowing but less interesting than looking.” -Johann von Goethe
“To write prose one must have something to say but he who has nothing to say can still make verses and rhymes, where one word suggests the other, and at last something comes out which in fact is nothing but looks as if it were something.” -Johann von Goethe
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We should quietly hear both sides.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born on 28 August 1749 in Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurter Stadtkreis, Hessen, Germany. He became a scientist, a poet, a novelist, a dramatist (playwright), a natural philosopher, and a diplomat. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of meters and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and color; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him are extant. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe passed on at 82 years of age on 22 March 1832 in Weimar, Weimarer Stadtkreis, Thüringen, Germany.
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“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.” -Wilhelm von Humboldt: as quoted in Jordan S. Metzger: “Lightning Fast Enlightenment: A Journey to the Secrets of Happiness” (2000), page 9
Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von Humboldt, also known simply as Wilhelm von Humboldt, was born on 22 June 1767 in Potsdam, Prussia. He became a German statesman, a diplomat, and a philosopher. He was a friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, and a brother of Alexander von Humboldt. He founded Humboldt Univesität (English: University) in Berlin. Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von Humboldt passed on at 67 years of age on 8 April 1835 in Tegel, Prussia.
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“Government is the only agency which can take a useful commodity like paper, slap some ink on it, and make it totally worthless.” -Ludwig von Mises
“The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West, from the age of the Greek polis down to the present-day resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for liberty against the encroachments of the officeholders.” -Ludwig von Mises
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“Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change!” -Johann von Schiller
“I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have lived and loved.” -Johann von Schiller
“Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.” - Johann von Schiller
The dignity of mankind is in your hands; protect it!
It sinks with you! With you it will ascend.
- Johann von Schiller
“The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.” -Johann von Schiller: “Mary Stuart” (1800), Act II, scene iii
“Who reflects too much will accomplish little.” -Johann von Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, also known simply as Friedrich Schiller, was born on 10 November 1759 in Marbach am Neckar, Duchy of Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire. He became a poet, an essayist, a historian, a dramatist, and a playwright. He is the author of the plays “The Robbers” (1781), “Don Carlos” (1787), the trilogy “Wallenstein” (1796), “William Tell” (1804), and the poem “Ode to Joy” (1785). Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller passed on at 45 years of age on 9 May 1805 in Weimar, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar, Holy Roman Empire.
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“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” -Albert von Szent-Györgyi: “The Scientist Speculates” (1962)
Albert Szent-Györgyi von Nagyrápolt was born on 16 September 1893 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. He became an American biochemist. He is known for being the first person to isolate citric acid, also known as vitamin C. Albert Szent-Györgyi von Nagyrápolt passed on at 93 years of age on 22 October 1986 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’” -Kurt Vonnegut, Junior
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” -Kurt Vonnegut, Junior
Kurt Vonnegut, Junior was born on 11 November 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America. He became a novelist, a short story writer, and an essayist. Kurt Vonnegut, Junior passed on at 84 years of age on 11 April 2007 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?” -Marilyn vos Savant
“Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.” -Marilyn vos Savant: as quoted in Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, and Andrew Frothingham: “And I Quote: The Definitive Collection . . .” (2003), page 53
“Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.” -Marilyn vos Savant
Marilyn vos Savant was born in 1946. She is an American lecturer, writer, playwright, and an advice columnist (1986 - present) under the heading ‘Ask Marilyn’ in “Parade Magazine.”
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“Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.” - Paul Valéry
Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry, often shortened to Paul Valéry, was born on 30 October 1871 in Sète, France. He became an essayist, an aphorist, and a poet. Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry passed on at 73 years of age on 20 July 1945 in Paris, France.
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“A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.” -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.” -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was born as Maria Ludwig Michael Mies on 27 March 1886 in Aachen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (now Aachen, Germany). He became an architect and a furniture stylist. He became an American citizen in 1944. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe passed on at 83 years of age on 17 August 1969 in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.
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“Happiness is inward and not outward, and so it does not depend on what we have but on what we are.” -Henry van Dyke
Not to the swift, the race.
Not to the strong, the fight.
-Henry van Dyke
“There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.” -Henry van Dyke
“Weather means more when you have a garden. There’s nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in and around your lettuce and green beans.” -Henry van Dyke
Henry Jackson van Dyke, Junior was born on 10 November 1852. He was an American clergyman, educator, short story writer, poet, and essayist. Henry Jackson van Dyke, Junior passed on at 80 years of age on 10 April 1933.
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“It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.” -Arthur H. Vandenberg
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“Each day, focus your attention on what you want. Each day, take one step that will bring you closer to it. All things are possible! The key is to identify it, claim it for yourself, and believe that you are worthy to have it.” -Iyanla Vanzant
Iyanla Vanzant was born as Rhonda Eva Harris on 13 September 1953 in Brooklyn, New York, United States of America. She is a professional speaker and a writer.
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“Money can’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.” -Bill Vaughan
William Edward ‘Bill’ Vaughan was born on 8 October 1915 in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America. He became a syndicated newspaper columnist (1946 - 1977) for the Kansas City “Star” under the heading “Starbeams.” His writing was published in the “Reader’s Digest” and “Better Homes and Gardens” magazines under the pseudonym Burton Hillis. William Edward ‘Bill’ Vaughan passed on at 61 years on age on 25 February 1977.
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“Let him who desires peace prepare for war.” -Vegetius
“In time of peace prepare for war.” -Vegetius
“The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.” -Vegetius
Flavius Vegetius Renatus, also known simply as Vegetius, was a military expert of ancient Rome.
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“Believe one who has tried it.” [English translation]
“Trust one who has proved it.” [variant English translation]
“Experto credite.” [original Latin]
-Vergil
“Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.” [English translation]
“Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.” [original Latin]
-Vergil: “The Aeneid” (about 29 B.C.E. - 19 B.C.E.), book 1, line 203
“The greatest wealth is health.” -Vergil
“Time bears all away, even memory.” [English translation]
“Omnia fert aetas, animum quoque.” [original Latin]
-Vergil: “Ecloga,” book 9, line 51
“Too happy would you be, did you but know your own advantages!” -Vergil
“We journey on in life through varied hazards and misfortunes.” -Vergil
Publius Vergilius Maro, also known as Vergil or Virgil, was born in 70 B.C.E. He became a writer and a poet of ancient Rome. He is known for three major works of Latin literature: the “Eclogues,” the “Georgics,” and the epic “Aeneid.” Publius Vergilius Maro passed at about 51 years of age on in 19 B.C.E.
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“We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.” -Paolo Veronese
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“I was reading a book . . . ‘The History of Glue’ - I couldn’t put it down.” -Tim Vine
Timothy Mark ‘Tim’ Vine was born in 1967.
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“If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.” -David Viscott
“The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.” -David Viscott
“To love and be loved is to feel the Sun from both sides.” -David Viscott
David Steven Viscott was born on 24 May 1938 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became a psychiatrist and a writer. David Steven Viscott pass on at 58 years of age on 10 October 1996 in Studio City, California, United States of America.
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“Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.” -Karl von Clausewitz
Karl von Clausewitz was born in 1780. Karl von Clausewitz passed on in 1831.
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“Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.” -Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
“Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.” -Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: as quoted in D. Scrase and W. Mieder, translators: “Aphorisms” (1994), page 29
“The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.” -Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, also known as Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, was born on 13 September 1830. She became an Austrian novelist. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach passed on at 85 years of age on 12 March 1916.
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“A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A person hears only what he understands.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Contradiction and flattery both make poor conversation.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Everything that happens to us leaves some trace behind; everything contributes imperceptibly to make us what we are.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Fools and wise men are equally harmless It is the half-fools and the half-wise that are dangerous.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“. . . he alone is great and happy who requires neither to command nor to obey in order to secure being of some importance in the world.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Gotz Von Berlichingen” (1773)
“How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflections? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then shalt thou know what is in thee.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and that its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the Sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set in night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If you treat an individual as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world, all rests on perseverance.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“‘Know thyself’? If I knew myself, I’d run away.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Knowing is not enough; we must act. Willing is not enough; we must do.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Let us not forget that a man can never get away from himself.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Life is the childhood of our immortality.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Torquato Tasso” (1790), Part 1, line 2
“The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Thinking is more interesting than knowing but less interesting than looking.” -Johann von Goethe
“To write prose one must have something to say but he who has nothing to say can still make verses and rhymes, where one word suggests the other, and at last something comes out which in fact is nothing but looks as if it were something.” -Johann von Goethe
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We should quietly hear both sides.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born on 28 August 1749 in Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurter Stadtkreis, Hessen, Germany. He became a scientist, a poet, a novelist, a dramatist (playwright), a natural philosopher, and a diplomat. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of meters and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and color; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him are extant. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe passed on at 82 years of age on 22 March 1832 in Weimar, Weimarer Stadtkreis, Thüringen, Germany.
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“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.” -Wilhelm von Humboldt: as quoted in Jordan S. Metzger: “Lightning Fast Enlightenment: A Journey to the Secrets of Happiness” (2000), page 9
Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von Humboldt, also known simply as Wilhelm von Humboldt, was born on 22 June 1767 in Potsdam, Prussia. He became a German statesman, a diplomat, and a philosopher. He was a friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, and a brother of Alexander von Humboldt. He founded Humboldt Univesität (English: University) in Berlin. Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von Humboldt passed on at 67 years of age on 8 April 1835 in Tegel, Prussia.
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“Government is the only agency which can take a useful commodity like paper, slap some ink on it, and make it totally worthless.” -Ludwig von Mises
“The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West, from the age of the Greek polis down to the present-day resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for liberty against the encroachments of the officeholders.” -Ludwig von Mises
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“Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change!” -Johann von Schiller
“I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have lived and loved.” -Johann von Schiller
“Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.” - Johann von Schiller
The dignity of mankind is in your hands; protect it!
It sinks with you! With you it will ascend.
- Johann von Schiller
“The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.” -Johann von Schiller: “Mary Stuart” (1800), Act II, scene iii
“Who reflects too much will accomplish little.” -Johann von Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, also known simply as Friedrich Schiller, was born on 10 November 1759 in Marbach am Neckar, Duchy of Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire. He became a poet, an essayist, a historian, a dramatist, and a playwright. He is the author of the plays “The Robbers” (1781), “Don Carlos” (1787), the trilogy “Wallenstein” (1796), “William Tell” (1804), and the poem “Ode to Joy” (1785). Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller passed on at 45 years of age on 9 May 1805 in Weimar, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar, Holy Roman Empire.
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“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” -Albert von Szent-Györgyi: “The Scientist Speculates” (1962)
Albert Szent-Györgyi von Nagyrápolt was born on 16 September 1893 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. He became an American biochemist. He is known for being the first person to isolate citric acid, also known as vitamin C. Albert Szent-Györgyi von Nagyrápolt passed on at 93 years of age on 22 October 1986 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’” -Kurt Vonnegut, Junior
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” -Kurt Vonnegut, Junior
Kurt Vonnegut, Junior was born on 11 November 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America. He became a novelist, a short story writer, and an essayist. Kurt Vonnegut, Junior passed on at 84 years of age on 11 April 2007 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?” -Marilyn vos Savant
“Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.” -Marilyn vos Savant: as quoted in Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, and Andrew Frothingham: “And I Quote: The Definitive Collection . . .” (2003), page 53
“Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.” -Marilyn vos Savant
Marilyn vos Savant was born in 1946. She is an American lecturer, writer, playwright, and an advice columnist (1986 - present) under the heading ‘Ask Marilyn’ in “Parade Magazine.”
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