quotes about Geneva

last updated: November 28, 2023

There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.
-- E. P. Thompson

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In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.
-- Frederick Reines

Source : Frederick Reines, William R. Kropp, M. Moe, L. Price (1991). “Neutrinos and Other Matters: Selected Works of Frederick Reines”, p.15, World Scientific

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“The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full many a beetle with loud applause Admires her dress of azure gauze, Admires her body's bright splendour, And also her figure so slender...”
“It is through you, actors, that the forces which are understood by millions and that tell of everything that is beautiful on earth, find expression. The forces which reveal to people the happiness of living in a widened consciousness and in the joy of creative work for the whole world. You, the actors of a theatre, which is one of the centres of human culture, will never be understood by the people if you are unable to reflect the spiritual needs of your time, the now in which you are living.”
“I have had to come to terms with wearing glasses.”
“When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alternative is for the audience to be presented with a final deduction (...) no effort on their part. What can it mean to them when they have not shared with the author the misery and joy of bringing an image into being?”
“The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.”
“I find it quite difficult to analyze my own motives for things. I tend to go with a gut feeling in the moment.”

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“A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.”
“Vulnerability is not weakness.”
“It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.”
“The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.”

Source : Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”