I don’t know why God gives sombreros to those who don’t have heads
Violetta Para (Chilean singer)
Voi ridete di me perche sono diverso, io rido di voi perche siette tutti uguali
La pietra saggia, ricevuta da Rosa
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Ne soyez que médiocres et vous irez à tout !
Il n’y a que l’inutilité du premier déluge qui empêche Dieu d’en envoyer un second
En France on laisse en repos ceux qui mettent le feu et on persécute ceux qui sonnent le tocsin
Il y a des sottises bien habillées comme il y a des sots très bien vêtus
Chamfort
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubts
Bertrand Russell
Fools and the wise are equally harmless. It is the half fools and the half-wise that are dangerous
Goethe
Wir sind gewohnt, dass die Menschen verhöhnen
Was sich nicht verstehen
Goethe
2008 :
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King , Jr
Don’t hate, it’s too big a burden to bear
Martin Luther King , Jr
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored
Aldous Huxley