All Quotes
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“❝Everything should be made simple as possible but no simpler.❞ Repeated throughout his life, see: Quote Investigator”
“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”
“Mes Projets d'Avenir”
“Autoritätsdusel ist der größte Feind der Wahrheit. Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
“Letter to Jost Winteler (July 8th, 1901), quoted in The Private Lives of Albert Einstein by Roger Highfields and Paul Carter (1993), p. 79 . Einstein had been annoyed that Paul Drude , editor of Annalen der Physik , had dismissed some criticisms Einstein made of Drude's electron theory of metals.”
“Opening of a letter to his friend Conrad Habicht in which he describes his four revolutionary Annus Mirabilis papers (18 or 25 May 1905) Doc. 27”
“If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminishes by L/c².”
“It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing”
“Does the inertia of a body depend upon its energy content?”
“I suppose you imagined I was so insanely in love with you that I could commit any folly. When will you women understand that one isn't insanely in love? All one asks for is a quiet life, which you won't allow one to have. I don't know what the devil ever induced me to marry you. It was all a damned stupid, practical joke. And now you go about saying I'm a murderer. I won't stand it. The Gioconda smile , in Mortal Coils”
“Stupidity or reason? Oh, there was no choice now. It was imbecility every time. The Gioconda smile , in Mortal Coils”
“'There are quiet places also in the mind', he said meditatively. 'But we build bandstands and factories on them. Deliberately”
“I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. Those Barren Leaves”
“Where are the Movies Moving?”
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong. Part II: Malaya ,”
“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. Part IV: America , Jesting Pilate: The Diary of a Journey ,”
“the Great Kings of Leinster,”
“Wordsworth in the Tropics”
“Surtout point de zèle. ["Above all, no zeal"”
“No hay nada imposible para quien lo intenta.”
“El cielo no puede soportar dos soles, ni la tierra dos amos.”
“Ahora le basta una tumba a quien el mundo entero no le bastaba.”
“Prefiero vivir una vida corta de gloria que una vida larga en la oscuridad.”
“Recordad que de la conducta de cada uno depende el destino de todos.”
“Qué grandes son los peligros que enfrento para ganar un buen nombre.”
“La fortuna favorece a los audaces.”
“Alejo Carpentier was absolutely wonderful. The Kingdom of the Earth is an exquisite little novel”
“For many years I have said, following the tradition of Nicolás Guillén , Fernando Ortiz and Alejo Carpentier, that whoever wants to understand Cuba cannot ignore its mestizo condition in which the Hispanic and African components cannot be divided because they have created a cosmovisión that is authentically original. Nancy Morejón Interview (2002) translated from the Spanish by Jason Weiss.”
“The baroque is a constant of the human spirit.”
“Latin America is the only continent where the real and the fantastic coexist naturally.”