Eucken Quotes

#1. I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.

Tariq Ali

#2. Nature, of course, has its share in the life of the soul and in numerous manifestations deeply influences human life. But this natural life of the soul is peripheral, mere appendix to the material phenomena of nature.

Rudolf Christoph Eucken

#3. For the past, rightly understood, is no mere past

Rudolf Christoph Eucken

#4. When you're on the other side of it," she says, "fifty-two years can seem like about fifty-two minutes.

Jennifer E. Smith

#5. I for one do not negotiate with Hamas and believe it is a mistake to do so.

Tzipi Livni

#6. Henry turned his hat in his hands but went on looking at Diana in a way that made her want to crawl into his arms and stay there forever.

Anna Godbersen

#7. Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.

Louis De Bernieres

#8. It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.

Heraclitus

#9. Technological progress becomes even more exciting when it enters into the service of the social idea which demands that not only a small elite but humanity at large should profit by it.

Rudolf Christoph Eucken

#10. In coming closer to nature, man shows himself superior to it. As a mere part of nature, man's existence would be a series of isolated phenomena. All life would proceed from and depend on contact with the outside world.

Rudolf Christoph Eucken

#11. The transformation of environment has become the purpose of human life; life seems real only insofar as it deals with things.

Rudolf Christoph Eucken