Quote of Virginia Woolf - Odd how the creative power at...
Biography - Virginia Woolf:
English writer.
Born: 1882 - Died: 1941
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
Born: 1882 - Died: 1941
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
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Quotes about the Universe:
The universe confounds me! I cannot imagine that such a ‘clock’ can exist without there being a Clockmaker.
Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.
The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is.
Quotes about power:
Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Quotes for: order
Beware of anyone who wants to order things. To regulate is always to make oneself master of the others by hampering them.
The order and connection of the thought is identical to with the order and connection of the things.
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