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I'm only trying to do what I can't do.

Lucian Freud

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Topic

Pushing one's limits Personal growth

Speaker

Lucian Freud

Source

Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

20th century

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Citation

Freud, Lucian. Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere. Interviewed by Michael Kimmelman. Random House, 1998, p. 109.

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury—to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Albert Einstein

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Topic

Success Materialism Simple living

Author

Albert Einstein

Source

Albert Einstein Living Philosophies

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1931 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Einstein, Albert. "Albert Einstein." Living Philosophies. Simon & Schuster, 1931, ch. 1.

Concern for the man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors; [..] concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Albert Einstein

Read this quote at the New York Times

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Topic

Technological progress

Speaker

Albert Einstein

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1931 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Einstein, Albert. Speech at the California Institute of Technology. 16 Feb. 1931, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.

If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

Albert Einstein

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Topic

Vocation Jobs

Speaker

Albert Einstein

Source

The Reporter

Medium

Newspaper

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1954 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Einstein, Albert. "On Intellectual Freedom, 18 November 1954." Einstein on Politics, edited by David E. Rowe and Robert Schulmann. Princeton University Press, 2007, ch. 10. Originally from Letter to the editor published in The Reporter, 18 Nov. 1954.

Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it.

Martin Heidegger

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Topic

Downsides of technology Technology

Author

Martin Heidegger

Source

The Question Concerning Technology

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1954 1950s 20th century

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Original Citation

Heidegger, Martin. Vorträge und Aufsätze. Garland Publishing, 1954.

Current Citation

Heidegger, Martin. "The Question Concerning Technology." The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays. Harper Perennial, 2013.

All religion, however, is nothing but the fantastic reflection in men's minds of those external forces which control their daily life.

Friedrich Engels

Anti-Duhring

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Topic

Religion

Author

Friedrich Engels

Source

Anti-Duhring

Genre

Political literature Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1878 1870s 19th century

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Original Citation

Engels, Frederick. "Herrn Eugen Dührings Umwälzung der Wissenschaft [Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science]." Vorwärts, 1878.

Current Citation

Engels, Frederick. "Anti-During." Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works. Vol. 25, Int Pub Co Inc, 1987, pt. 3, ch. 5.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two thirds of the people of the earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.

Albert Einstein

Read Einstein on the Atomic Bomb at theatlantic.com

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Topic

Nuclear holocaust Nuclear war Nuclear weapons Civilization

Speaker

Albert Einstein

Source

Einstein on the Atomic Bomb Atlantic Monthly

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1945 1940s 20th century

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Original Citation

Einstein, Albert. "Einstein on the Atomic Bomb." Interviewed by Raymond Swing. Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1945.

Current Citation

Einstein, Albert. Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb. Princeton University Press, 2013, ch. 8.

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."

Erich Fromm

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Topic

Nature of love Love

Author

Erich Fromm

Source

The Art of Loving

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Fromm, Erich. The Art of Loving. Harper & Brothers, 1956, ch. 2.

It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Quoted in Life Magazine

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Topic

Photography

Speaker

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Source

Life Magazine

Medium

Obituary Magazine

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1995 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Eisenstaedt, Alfred. "Obituary." Life Magazine, 24 Aug. 1995.

Maximilien Robespierre was nothing but the hand of Jean Jacques Rousseau, the bloody hand that drew from the womb of time the body whose soul Rousseau had created.

Heinrich Heine

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Topic

French Revolution Power of ideas Politics is downstream of culture

Author

Heinrich Heine

Source

Germany After Luther

Genre

Religious literature Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1834 1830s 19th century

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Original Citation

Heine, Heinrich. "De l'Allemagne depuis Luther [Germany after Luther]." Revue des deux Mondes, Dec. 1834.

Current Citation

Heine, Heinrich. "On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany." On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany and Other Writings, translated by Howard Pollack-Milgate, edited by Terry Pinkard. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Small is beautiful.

E.F. Schumacher

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Topic

Simplicity

Author

E.F. Schumacher

Source

The Radical Humanist

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Schumacher, E. F. "Small is Beautiful." The Radical Humanist, Aug. 1973, vol. 37, no. 5.

To put it in one word: I believe that Judaism knows nothing of revealed religion, in the sense in which this is understood by Christians. The Israelites possess divine legislation.

Moses Mendelssohn

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Topic

Christianity and Judaism Judaism

Author

Moses Mendelssohn

Language

German

Time

1783 1780s 18th century

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Original Citation

Mendelssohn, Moses. Jerusalem oder über religiöse Macht und Judentum [Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism]. Berlin: Friedrich Maurer, 1783.

Current Citation

Mendelssohn, Moses. Jerusalem: Or on Religious Power and Judaism, translated by Allan Arkush. Brandeis University Press, 1983.

The word "freedom" means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word "order." Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order.

Prince Metternich

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Topic

Ordered liberty Freedom Order Law and order

Author

Prince Metternich

Language

German

Time

1859 1850s 19th century

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Citation

Metternich, Klemens von. Mein Politisches Testament [My Political Testament]. c. 1880.

The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.

Max Weber

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Topic

Absurdity of life Religion

Author

Max Weber

Source

Politics as a Vocation

Medium

Lecture

Language

German

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Weber, Max. "Politiks wie Beruf [Politics As a Vocation]." 1917, Munich University, Munich, Germany. Lecture.