All Quotes
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“When you're sick [due to drug withdrawal], music is a great help. Once in Texas, I kicked a [heroin] habit on weed, a pint of paregoric, and a few Louis Armstrong records. William S. Burroughs , Junky (1953), Chapter 12”
“I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner. Letter (December 1851); as quoted in The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague In History (2004) by John M. Barry”
“I am on the verge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner. The nights seem to me too long... I am often scolded by Madame Pasteur, but I tell her I shall lead her to fame. Microbe Hunters (1926) by Paul De Kruif”
“My plan of study is traced for this coming year... I am hoping to develop it shortly in the most successful manner... I think that I have already told you that I am on the verge of mysteries, and that the veil which covers them is getting thinner and thinner. The nights seem to me too long, yet I do not complain... I am often scolded by Mme. Pasteur, but I console her by telling her that I shall lead her to fame. The Life of Pasteur (1916) by René Vallery”
“Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés. In the fields of observation chance favours only the prepared mind . Lecture, University of Lille”
“Chance favors the prepared mind.”
“Fortune favors the prepared mind.”
“In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind.”
“Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.”
“There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it. Revue Scientifique (1871) Variant translation: There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.”
“L' univers est dissymetrique... The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.”
“I want to seize fate by the throat. Letter to F.G. Wegeler, 16 November, 1801.”
“There ought to be but one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art”
“...thus do I take my farewell of thee”
“Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear. Conversations”
“Nur das Reine im Herzen kann eine gute Suppe machen. Only the pure in the heart can make a good soup.”
“Musik höhere Offenbarung ist als alle Weisheit und Philosophie. [1] Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
“As reported by Bettina von Arnim in a letter to Goethe , 28 May 1810.”
“Goethe's Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde: Seinem Denkmal , Volume 2, Dümmler, 1835, p. 193.”
“Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and sensual life. Attributed to Beethoven by Bettina von Arnim in a letter to Goethe (28 May 1810); Goethe's Correspondence with a Child”
“Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? Letter to Bettina von Arnim”
“El mundo es todo lo que sucede [...] la totalidad de los hechos, no de las cosas”
“La imagen es un hecho”
“Lo que se deja expresar, debe ser dicho de forma clara; sobre lo que no se puede hablar, es mejor callar”
“Well, only gay people can get it; it's not going to happen to me”
“Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball. Then & Now: Magic Johnson”
“All I can do is be me — whoever that is.”
“When the game is on the line, I want the ball.”
“Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.”
“The most important thing is to be happy with who you are.”