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Zagajewski (+)
«I will never be someone who writes only about bird song, although I admire birdsong highly – but not enough to withdraw from the…
Ljoset nytt i natti rann (+)
Klårt di krubbe skina kan, ljoset nytt i natti rann naud og natt til ende er, trui alltid ljoset ser. Veni, redemptor gentium, Ambrosius…
Dharma (+)
When I rain down the rain of Dharma Then all this world is well refreshed…. And then, refreshed, just like the plants, The world…
Hodgson (+)
The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery. Hodgson
Arendt (+)
Real stories, in distinction from those we invent, have no author. Although history owes its existence to men, it is not «made» by them.…
Ortega y Gasset (+)
In history, as soon as the man of action puts in an appearance and is discussed and pampered, it means that a period of…
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To praise princes for virtues they are lacking in is a way of insulting them with impunity. La Rochefoucauld If I have said something…
Maimonides (+)
Know that for the human mind there are certain objects of perception which are within the scope of its nature and capacity; on the…
Chesterton (+)
Nine times out of ten, the coarse word is the word that condemns an evil and the refined word the word that excuses it.…
Johnsen & Emerson (+)
If he really does think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our house, let us count…
Auden (+)
Lest we should see where we are, Lost in a haunted wood, Children afraid of the night Who have never been happy or good.…
Bull (+)
Det var dén tiden da han med sindsro, ja glæde indrømmet alle sine feil, fordi han følte overerstatning for dem i det at være…
Montesquieu (+)
Happy the people whose annals are boring to read. Montesquieu
Frihet, likhet, brorskap (+)
Den eldste opprindelse til dette slagord er at finde hos filosoffen C. L. de Montesquieu (1689-1755), der i mange henseender banede vej for den…