Top 47 Quotes About Wessel
#1. Peter Wessel and Peter Van Daan have grown into one Peter, who is beloved and good, and for whom I long desperately.
Anne Frank
#2. The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in some faith or fantasy, there will never be an answer.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#3. If you let some time go by before considering work that you have done, you move toward a more objective position in judging it. The pleasure of the subjective, physical experience in the world is a more distant memory and less influential.
Henry Wessel Jr.
#4. The dread of being stares us in the eye, and in a deadly gush we perceive how the minds are dangling in threads of their own spinning, and that a hell is lurking underneath.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#5. When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal is based on a hair-raising misapprehension of the nature of existence.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#6. You're suddenly seeing the coherence and the interconnectedness of everything, left to right, top to bottom, front to back. It's all connected, and, somehow, it's all in balance. And that's, of course, when you go, 'Yes!'.
Henry Wessel Jr.
#7. It can happen anytime, anywhere. I mean, you don't have to be in front of stuff that's going to make a good photograph. It's possible anywhere.
Henry Wessel Jr.
#8. No future triumph or metamorphosis can justify the pitiful blighting of a human being against his will.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#9. He is the universe's helpless captive, kept to fall into nameless possibilities.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#10. I think the one thing that's going on here is that people are saying, uh-oh, the Chinese economy might be slowing more than we thought and the government is having a hard time stimulating it again.
David Wessel
#11. We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#13. To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#14. Chinese don't really believe in markets. They like stability, they like control.
David Wessel
#15. If you don't have a set of principles that you can explain for what you are doing, then how can anybody know what you're going to do next?
David Wessel
#16. If the government can't get the economy moving again, they have a lot of fundamental problems.
David Wessel
#17. As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#18. China's stock market is not very big. And yet when stock market has a bad day in China, it seems, Europe has a bad day and then we have a bad day.
David Wessel
#20. [The photographer's task] is to describe the existing light ... Chances are, if you believe the light, you're going to believe that the things photographed existed in the world.
Henry Wessel Jr.
#23. A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#24. Man is the ultimate tragic being, because he has learned enough about the Earth to realise the Earth would be better off without the presence of humankind.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#25. Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out toward the sun, but when it inhales, a moan of rupture passes through the multitude, and corpses whip the ground like bouts of hail.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#26. In a still photograph you basically have two variables, where you stand and when you press the shutter. That's all you have.
Henry Wessel Jr.
#27. I actually try and work before my mind is telling me what to do.
Henry Wessel Jr.
#28. I think it was seen as a symptom that the Chinese leadership may be really scared about their economy.Why would you want to depend more on exports if you're a country that has a stated policy of relying less on exports and more on consumer spending, domestic spending?
David Wessel
#29. Nobody really knows what the market is going to do, but it sure looks like we are going to have a lot more volatility.
David Wessel
#30. I think it's hard to understand in economics. It's easier to understand on psychology.It's a kind of panic or a sense that the world economy is just not in as good shape as we thought and so everybody is chasing everybody else.
David Wessel
#31. Most musicians I know don't just play music on Saturday night. They play music every day. They are always fiddling around, letting the notes lead them from one place to another. Taking still photographs is like that. It is a generative process. It pulls you along.
Henry Wessel Jr.
#33. If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#34. The more a human being in his worldview approaches the goal, the hegemony of love in a moral universe, the more has he become slipshod in the light of intellectual honesty.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#35. Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual demands that reality cannot fulfill. We have expectations of a just and moral world. Man requires meaning in a meaningless world.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#36. It may be that the U.S. stock market starts to rise if people think it's gone far enough.
David Wessel
#37. A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic bruteness.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#39. The only reason you would want your currency to fall, if you could control it, is in order to get more exports.
David Wessel
#40. I don't go out looking for pictures. I go out, and if something catches my eye, that's reason enough to photograph it.
Henry Wessel Jr.
#41. The immediate facts are what we must relate to. Darkness and light, beginning and end.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#42. I think the Chinese are really amateurs when it comes to running markets.
David Wessel
#43. I think oil prices are down for two reasons. One is, there is a lot of supply. There is a lot of supply because the U.S. now produces a lot of oil and there is a lot of supply because the Saudis seem to want to produce a lot of oil, maybe to punish the Iranians and the Russians.
David Wessel
#44. He is mighty in the near world, but curses his might as purchased with his harmony of soul, his innocence, his inner peace in life's embrace.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#45. I think that the feel that maybe China is slowing down means it will be buying less from Africa and Latin America. That means Procter & Gamble and Coca-Cola will sell less in Latin America and Africa. And so it is definitely related.
David Wessel
#46. People have put a lot of faith in the government's ability to get growth going in China. People have this, what I think, illusion that there are six people in China who really have their hand on every button. And what we're learning is, it's a very big economy and they're not that good at it.
David Wessel
#47. There is also a concern that there is a lack of demand of oil. And so when commodity prices fall, it's good if you happen to be a consumer, but it's sometimes seen as symptom of a weakening economy.
David Wessel
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