Sitater fra en forfatter og filosof
Har du noen gang lurt på hvorfor det er så vanskelig å overbevise
norske fagfolk og myndigheter om at kverner egentlig er en
meget
god løsning? Da er du ikke alene. En venn
av meg fortalte meg engang om en russisk forfatter som trolig
viste
svaret
for allerede 100 år siden.
Leo
Tolstoy (1828-1910) er også
berømt for mange av sine sitater, men denne burde
alle kunne uten at;
"Jeg
vet at de fleste mennesker, inkludert de som uten vanskelighet
håndterer
de mest komplekse problemer, sjelden kan akseptere selv
den enkleste og mest opplagte sannhet hvis det kan føre
til at de må innrømme
at de konklusjonene de tidligere hadde meddelt sine kolleger
og med stolthet har belært andre med, og som de tråd
for tråd
har vevd inn i sitt livs vev, er feilaktige."
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Nedenfor er min samlig av hans andre sitater,
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bare de jeg liker aller best;
"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained
not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is
not
gold."
"Man discovers truth by reason only,
not by faith."
"Life consists in penetrating the
unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new
knowledge thus acquired."
"Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one
thinks of changing himself."
"Error is the force that welds men
together;
truth is
communicated to men only by deeds of truth."
"The vocation of every man and woman
is to serve other people."
"One of the first conditions of happiness
is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken."
"We lost because we told ourselves
we lost."
"The two most powerful warriors are
patience and time."
"True life is lived when tiny changes
occur."
"If you want to be happy, be."
"Boredom: the desire for desires."
"A man is like a fraction whose numerator
is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of
himself. The
larger the denominator the smaller the fraction."
"To say that a work of art is good,
but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same
as saying of some kind
of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat
it."
"One ought only to write when one
leaves a piece of one`s flesh in the ink-pot each time
one dips one's pen."
"If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no
sufficient reason for living."
"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work,
look
around you."
"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems
of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest
and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them
to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted
in explaining to colleages, which they have proudly taught
to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into
the fabric of their lives."
"She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all,
she had truth."
"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling
the artist has experienced."
Viste du at Leo Tolstoy var anarkist?
"Government
is an association of men who do
violence to
the rest of us."
Har du lest "Our
Enemy, The State" av Albert Jay Nock?
Boka ble skrevet i 1935 og tar utgangspunkt i USA, men
jeg tror den skarpe kritikken like gjerne kan rettes
mot Norge eller hvilket som helst annet land.
