Victor Hugo

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

Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel: Viscount de Tocqueville. (Verneuil-sur-Seine, 29 July 1805 – Cannes, 16 April 1859). French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist, historian and statesman. He is considered an important thinker of modern political liberalism. I hope to see the day when the law guarantees equal civil liberty to all inhabitants of the same empire. Liberty cannot… Lees verder Alexis de Tocqueville

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day’s last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night. I don’t just want words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go. I wasn’t actually in love, but felt a sort of tender curiosity. Life starts all over again when it gets… Lees verder F. Scott Fitzgerald

Erich Fromm

Erich Pinchas Fromm: (Frankfurt am Main, 23 March 1900 – Muralto (Switzerland), 18 March 1980). Internationally renowned German-American psychologist, social psychologist and philosopher. Although he grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family, he later adhered to a humanist philosophy of life. He began his career as a Freudian psychoanalyst in Berlin. An illusion shared by… Lees verder Erich Fromm

Marcel Messing

Marcel Messing: (Netherlands, 18 November 1945) Graduated in anthropology, philosophy and religious studies. He is the author of 25 books and several articles. He was a staff lecturer and dean in Higher Vocational Education, a scientific contributor to the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica in Amsterdam and a contributor to the journals Prana and Inzicht. Messing lived… Lees verder Marcel Messing

Chinese proverbs

Outside noisy, inside empty. The trees planted by one generation, give shadow for the next. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. He who sees heaven in the water sees the fishes in the trees. If you are patient in one moment of anger, you… Lees verder Chinese proverbs