Raoul Wallenberg quotes

“I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is.”
-- Raoul Wallenberg

Source : Raoul Wallenberg (1995). “Letters and Dispatches, 1924-1944”, p.48, Arcade Publishing

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“I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself that I'd done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible”
-- Raoul Wallenberg

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“One person can make a difference.”
-- Raoul Wallenberg

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“When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.”

“The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the stereotyped.”

Source : Alvar Aalto, J. Stewart Johnson (1984). “Alvar Aalto, Furniture and Glass: Exhibition the Museum of Modern Art, New York”

“Suspend for a moment your disbelief and encounter once again the sense of wonder you knew when there was... magic!”

“It is too early to feel fear of the future when one is under 30, and too late after that. What I mean is that one must never allow fear to become one's permanent sense of life. The important thing is to prepare yourself intellectually to deal with whatever circumstances you may encounter, which requires that you define your values fully, clearly and rationally -- and never betray them.”

“Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.”

“What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.”

“The truth is the best propaganda.”

“The truth is in the mystery.”

“The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.”

“Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good.”