Lou Andreas-Salomé quotes

“Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his frailties?”
-- Lou Andreas-Salomé

Source : Lou Andreas-Salomé (1964). “The Freud Journal”, Texas Bookman

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“Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.”
-- Lou Andreas-Salomé

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“If you have no more happiness to give: Give me your pain.”
-- Lou Andreas-Salomé

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“Whoever reaches into a rosebush may seize a handful of flowers; but no matter how many one holds, it's only a small portion of the whole. Nevertheless, a handful is enough to experience the nature of the flowers. Only if we refuse to reach into the bush, because we can't possibly seize all the flowers at once, or if we spread out our handful of roses as if it were the whole of the bush itself -- only then does it bloom apart from us, unknown to us, and we are left alone.”
-- Lou Andreas-Salomé

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“You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry”

“Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have been an easy matter. France and Italy, each defeated in turn at an interval of a few months by the two Germanic Powers, would have been well out of it. Both would have had to renounce their inappropriate aspirations to greatness. At the same time they would have had to renounce their pretensions in North Africa and the Near East; and that would have allowed Europe to pursue a bold policy of friendship towards Islam. (4th February 1945)”

“You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.”

Source : "Q & A: Afrika Bambaataa Spins Hip-Hop Knowledge". Q&A with Simon McCormack, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2010.

“Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly?”

“We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.”

Source : Abraham Kaplan (1973). “The conduct of inquiry”, p.53, Transaction Publishers

“Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical notation, the nature of its processes must consequently be arithmetical and numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine its numerical quantities exactly as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and in fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly.”

“I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.”

“It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.”

“One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.”

Source : "Motivation and Personality". Book by Abraham Maslow, p. 255, 1954.

“Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing.”

Source : "Leader of Indonesian Jama'a Islamiyya Abu Bakr Al-Ba'shir: I Support Bombings in America, But Not in the Muslim World". MEMRI, October 26, 2007.