Thinkers of the Industrial Age
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
1879 – 1973
Politicsquotes
Erode Venkatappa Ramasamy, commonly known as Periyar, was an Indian social activist and politician. He was the organiser of the Self-Respect Movement and Dravidar Kazhagam and is considered the architect of Dravidian politics, as well as a leading figure of left-wing politics in India.
Wisdom lies in thinking. The spear-head of thinking is rationalism,
Seán O'Casey
1880 – 1964
Literaturequotes
Isn't all religions curious? If they weren't you wouldn't get anyone to believe them.
Ze'ev Jabotinsky
1880 – 1940
Literaturequotes
Eliminate the Diaspora, or the Diaspora will surely eliminate you.
Franz Marc
1880 – 1916
Artquotes
Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of German Expressionism. He was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter, a journal whose name later became synonymous with the circle of artists collaborating in it.
I walked like a roe-deer in an enchanted forest, for which it has always yearned.
Douglas MacArthur
1880 – 1964
Militaryquotes
Douglas MacArthur was an American general who served as a top commander during World War II and the Korean War, achieving the rank of General of the Army. He served with distinction in World War I; as chief of staff of the United States Army from 1930 to 1935; as Supreme Commander, Southwest Pacific Area, from 1942 to 1945; as Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers overseeing the occupation of Japan from 1945 to 1951; and as head of the United Nations Command in the Korean War from 1950 to 1951. MacArthur was nominated for the Medal of Honor three times, and awarded it for his WWII service in the Philippines.
The MacArthur Memorial - The MacArthur Memorial at Norfolk, Virginia
Oswald Spengler
1880 – 1936
Mathematicsquotes
Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler was a German polymath whose areas of interest included history, philosophy, mathematics, science, and art, as well as their relation to his organic theory of history. He is best known for his two-volume work The Decline of the West, published in 1918 and 1922, covering human history. Spengler's model of history postulates that human cultures and civilizations are akin to biological entities, each with a limited, predictable, and deterministic lifespan.
Spengler, Oswald. The Decline of the West Vol. I and vol. II , Alfred A. Knopf
André Derain
1880 – 1954
Artquotes
André Derain was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder, with Henri Matisse, of Fauvism. His paintings of 1905–1906 are characterized by riotous colourism in the Fauve style. By 1910, however, his work had become more austere as a result of his study of Cézanne and the old masters.
Max Wertheimer
1880 – 1943
Psychologyquotes
Max Wertheimer was a psychologist who was one of the three founders of Gestalt psychology, along with Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Köhler. He is known for his book Productive Thinking and for conceiving the phi phenomenon as part of his work in Gestalt psychology.
Often, in great discovery the most important thing is that a certain question is found.
Words from December 27
"Wisdom lies in thinking. The spear-head of thinking is rationalism,"
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
1879
"I have not talked of anything to despise the Brahmins, just because they are born as Brahmins."
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
1879
"Isn't all religions curious? If they weren't you wouldn't get anyone to believe them."
Seán O'Casey
1880
"A man should always be drunk, Minnie, when he talks politics — it's the only way in which to make them important."
Seán O'Casey
1880
"Eliminate the Diaspora, or the Diaspora will surely eliminate you."
Ze'ev Jabotinsky
1880
"The Jews might become the dynamite that will blow up the British Empire."
Ze'ev Jabotinsky
1880