Georgius Agricola quotes

“Albertus [Magnus] ... debased the doctrine of Aristotle with the itch of the chemists flowing with the bloody flux of quicksilver and the stench of sulphur.”
-- Georgius Agricola

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“We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.”

“As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.”

“When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.”

“The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.”

Source : Anna Leonowens (2009). “The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok”, p.184, Applewood Books

“Albertus [Magnus] ... debased the doctrine of Aristotle with the itch of the chemists flowing with the bloody flux of quicksilver and the stench of sulphur.”

“Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.”

“The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.”

Source : Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик

“I'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because they don't know a bloody thing about me.”

“The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.”

Source : "The Rolling Stones: Notes from the Babylon Bar". Interview with Chris Heath, www.rollingstone.com. December 23, 1997.

“All revolutions are bloody. The October Revolution was bloodless, but it was only the beginning”

Source : Dmitri Volkogonov (1998). “Trotsky: Eternal Revolutionary”, Simon and Schuster