“Three hundred men, who all know each other direct the economic destinies of the Continent and they look for successors among their friends and relations. This is not the place to examine the strange causes of this strange state of affairs which throws a ray of light on the obscurity of our social future.” KnowsMenLooksStatesLightThreeSocialCausesDestinyEconomicStrangeHundredDirectRelationAffairJewRaysContinentsObscuritySuccessorsRays Of Light Author:Walther Rathenau
“I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the aim of finding this or that in them.” IfsThinkingBelieveLooksI BelieveFindingsDirectAimAriseContactContemplation Book:The Symbolic Language of Vincent Van Gogh Source: The Symbolic Language of Vincent Van Gogh
“If you look at the world with parted lips and a pure heart, and will the good, won't that make a true and beautiful poem? One's heart tells one that it will; and one's heart is wrong. There is no direct road to Parnassus.” IfsWorldLooksHeartBeautifulPureDirectLipsPure Heart Author:Randall Jarrell