Eugen Rosenstock-huessy Quotes

#1. He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the long run.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#2. All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.

Samuel Johnson

#3. We are so dull that we rarely realize how much history lies hidden in marriage, and how the one word spoken by the bride makes all the difference between cattle-raising and a nation's good breeding.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#4. He thinks being black means having plenty of attitude; I think having plenty of knowledge is what black is all about;

Eric Jerome Dickey

#5. Do they come to bury the others or to be entombed to give life or to receive it?

Ralph Ellison

#6. The American dream. Those three short, simple words encompass the hopes and aspirations of all the peoples on earth. The words are not only short and simple. They are also fragile.

Ross Perot

#7. Sexuality throws no light upon love, but only through love can we learn to understand sexuality.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#8. You don't need to go over every detail of your past, but if something comes up, face it and process those feelings, get to the core belief, so you can shift it.

Sheri Kaye Hoff

#9. As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of the Church. People tried to think the new life without being touched by it first in some form of call, listening, passion or change of heart.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#10. Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#11. To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#12. It is useless to teach those who do not expect to be transformed

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#13. Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish a new and better time schedule for life, has been the great endeavour of man ever since the days of Noah.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#14. A rise of 5C would be a temperature the world has not seen for 30 to 50 million years. We've been around only 100,000 years as human beings. We don't know what that's like.

Nicholas Stern

#15. It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

#16. Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject

Josh Billings

#17. Sometimes, loyalty gets in the way of what you want to do. Sometimes, it's not your secret to tell.

Stephenie Meyer

#18. In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine.

Socrates

#19. He who believes in nothing still needs a girl to believe in him.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#20. I've always said I've got the coolest fans, and I brag about you like grandchildren when I talk to other artists

John Mayer

#21. Debt on anything that depreciates is disastrous. #financialfitness

Orrin Woodward

#22. Thought is not consecrated unless it resists trends.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#23. Everybody is a bit right.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#24. The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#25. Don't do what you love, love what you do well.

Christopher Hart

#26. And the great question for mankind is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever and old love or fear has lost its hold.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#27. My life isn't perfect and it will never be I make mistakes, I learn from them and keep moving forward.

Shellie Palmer

#28. Experiences of the first order, of the first rank, are not realized through the eye.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#29. Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy