Home / Quotes / Quote by Angelus Silesius

Quote by Angelus Silesius

“By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.”

Quote by Angelus Silesius

Author

Angelus Silesius

Angelus Silesius, born on December 25, 1624, and died on July 9, 1677, was a German Catholic priest. His poetry was deeply influenced by Christian mysticism and is considered one of the representatives of German literature during the Baroque period. more

You May Also Like

“He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.”

Author:Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“Rigor is not a substitute for imagination.”

Imagination Creativity Communication Substitutes Rigor

Book:Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions

Source: Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions

“Tools, of course, can be the subtlest of traps.”

Courses Design Tools Traps

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.”

Political Wish Tyranny Manners Pockets Currency Popularity Political Correctness Correctness

Author:Charlton Heston

“The gospel of licentiousness, of selfishness, of blaming all the difficulties of life on external factors - these are the things that are killing people today in ways that the slave whips and the overseers couldn't.”

People Way Today Political Difficulty Blame Slave Killing Factors Selfishness Political Correctness Whips

Author:Alan Keyes

“'Fair' is one of the most dangerous concepts in politics. Since no two people are likely to agree on what is 'fair,' this means that there must be some third party with power - the government - to impose its will. The road to despotism is paved with 'fairness'.”

People Mean Two Government Political Party Dangerous Concepts Fairs Thirds Agree Fairness Political Correctness Despotism Third Parties

Author:Thomas Sowell

“You play with your soul as well as your body.”

“But most of all, I'm a part of you people out there who have listened to me, because especially you people in Michigan, you Tiger fans, you've given me so much warmth, so much affection and so much love.”

People Given Fans Affection Warmth Tigers Michigan Much Love

Book:Tuned to Baseball

Source: Tuned to Baseball

“She taught me that it's ok to let down your guard and allow your players to get to know you. They don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.”

Knows Care Know How Player Taught Don't Care Let Down

Author:Pat Summitt

“Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining, too confining. The insistence on bland impersonality and the widespread indifference to anything like the display of a unique human author in scientific exposition, have transformed the reading of most scientific papers into an act of tedious drudgery.”