Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm quotes

Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.”
-- Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm

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“Montesquieu had the style of a genius; Buffon, the genius of style.”
-- Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm

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“God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.”
“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”
“Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.”
“If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory.”

Source : Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, D. M. Thomas (2006). “Poems”, Knopf Publishing Group
“There is only God. REALITY is God and has never required your belief. This reality no "one" survives. In Ultimate Reality no "one" is saved either - there is simply nothing to save you "from" : you have not emerged from any "other" and there is no place else for "you" to disappear into. Ever.”
“I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.”
“My favorite chip trick is to make everyone's chip stack disappear.”
“Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beingsâ€¦”

Source : Avery Gordon, Angela Davis (2015). “Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge, Power and People”, p.54, Routledge
“It seemed to her as though everything that was good and true had been blasted out of the world. All those things had been crushed destroyed made to disappear.”
“You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.”

Source : Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.3, Rowman & Littlefield

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