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It is not what you look at, but what you see.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862
Any fool can make a rule.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862February 3, 1860
We cannot solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis. […] And if solutions within the system are so impossible to find, then maybe we should change the system itself?
Greta Thunbergborn 2003“You are stealing our future” (December 2018)
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Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.
BTBarbara Toberborn 1970
Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859National Character of Americans—first impressions (1831) Oeuvres complètes, vol. VIII, p. 233.
- America
- Change
Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Quotes by Tocqueville Alexis De, p. 4.
Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three, Chapter XXI.
However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859
All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
J. R. R. Tolkien1892–1973The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)
I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
J. R. R. Tolkien1892–1973The Fellowship of the Ring (1954), Bilbo’s farewell speech
The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction, its own madness.
Eckhart Tolleborn 1948A New Earth (2005)
Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
Eckhart Tolleborn 1948A New Earth (2005)
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Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910
It is only through the ordinary that the extraordinary can make itself perceived.
P. L. Travers1899–1996The Paris Review interview (1982)
Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
Pierre Trudeau1919–2000Approaches to Politics (1970)
- Change
- Intelligence