Amerigo Vespucci quotes

“The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please”
-- Amerigo Vespucci

Source : Amerigo Vespucci (1916). “Letter to Piero Soderini, Gonfaloniere: The Year 1504”

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“Those new regions [America] which we found and explored with the fleet . . . we may rightly call a New World . . . a continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us.”
-- Amerigo Vespucci

Source : Mundus Novus (1503) (translation by G. T. Northup)

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“I resolved to abandon trade and to fix my aim on something more praiseworthy and stable; whence it was that I made preparation for going to see part of the world and its wonders.”
-- Amerigo Vespucci

Source : Amerigo Vespucci (1992). “Letters of the Four Voyages to the New World”

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“Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.”

Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă ("Nationality in Art")". Naţionalitatea în artă ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.

“The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.”

“Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.”

Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

“Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.”

“The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”

“Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.”

“Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.”

Source : Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.”

“Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.”

“Please do not understand me too quickly.”