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"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."
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Elie Wiesel
Literature
1928–2016
"They called him Moishe the Beadle, as if his entire life he had never had a surname."
69 quotes
🇬🇧Jacob Bronowski
Literature
1908–1974
"All great scientists have used their imaginations freely, and let it ride them to outrageous conclusions without crying "Halt!"
62 quotes
Petrarch
philosophy
1304–1374
"How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!"
25 quotes
Al-Biruni
Mathematics
973–1050
"A Persian by birth, Biruni produced his writings in Arabic, though he knew, besides Persian, no less than four other languages."
17 quotes
🇳🇬Leo Igwe
Social Activism
humanism
b. 1970
"Human beings are social beings with or without religion."
21 quotes
Notable Quotes
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel, b. 1928View →
"They called him Moishe the Beadle, as if his entire life he had never had a surname."
— Elie Wiesel, b. 1928View →
"A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other."
— Elie Wiesel, b. 1928View →
"The language of ideas creates a different universe: a universe which has multiplied the monkey's vocabulary of forty words to the million words in the English dictionary."
— Jacob Bronowski, b. 1908View →
"he most important images for human beings are simply words, which are abstract symbols. ...volution has greatly enlarged the front lobes of the human brain, which govern the sense of the past and the future; and... they are probably the seat of our other images."
— Jacob Bronowski, b. 1908View →