Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Bertrand Arthur William Russell: (Trellech (Monmouthshire, Wales), 18 May 1872 – Penrhyndeudraeth (Gwynedd, Wales), 2 February 1970). British philosopher, historian, logician, mathematician, champion of social innovation, humanist, pacifist and a prominent atheist rationalist. Russell was awarded the Order of Merit in 1949 and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950. Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses… Lees verder Bertrand Russell

Fate laughs at probabilities. Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.

Leonardo da Vinci: (Anchiano (Vinci), 15 April 1452 – Amboise, 2 May 1519). Italian architect, inventor, engineer, philosopher, physicist, chemist, anatomist, sculptor, writer and painter from the Florentine Republic, during the Italian Renaissance. He is considered the textbook example of the Renaissance ideal of homo universalis and genius. I awoke, only to find out that… Lees verder Leonardo da Vinci

A child sees the infinite potential that life is, not because the child is ignorant, but because the child is free from a conditioned view.

The best gift you are ever going to give someone – the permission to feel safe in their own skin. To feel worthy. To feel like they are enough.

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky: (11 November [O.S. 30 October] 1821 – St Petersburg, 9 February [O.S. 28 January] 1881). Russian novelist and publicist. He is one of the best-known authors in Russian literature. He is counted among the so-called ‘Realist School’ in Russia, although his work is distinguished from many other realists by its philosophical content… Lees verder Fyodor M. Dostoevsky

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming. Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.

Victor Marie Hugo: (Besançon, 26 February 1802 – Paris, 22 May 1885) was a French writer, poet, essayist and statesman and is considered one of the most important and influential French Romantic authors of the 19th century. He wrote novels, poems, plays, essays and political speeches and also left an extensive correspondence. Friendship is being… Lees verder Victor Hugo

Addiction is a friendship without a friend.

I hope to see the day when the law guarantees equal civil liberty to all inhabitants of the same empire. Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.