Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Aurobindo Ghose: (Calcutta, 15 August 1872 – Puducherry, 5 December 1950). Indian nationalist and freedom fighter, yogi, guru, Hindu mystic, philosopher and poet. He was one of India’s leading independence fighters. He was the founder of integral yoga. Mirra Alfassa, his French companion who later organised the ashram he founded as ‘Mother’, founded the Auroville… Lees verder Sri Aurobindo

Maksim Gorki: Pseudonym of Aleksey Maximovich Peshkov. (Nizhny Novgorod, 28 March [O.T.: 16 March] 1868 – Moscow, 18 June 1936). Russian novelist and playwright. The pseudonym stands for: the Greatest Bitter. Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.

William Melvin Hicks: (December 16, 1961 – February 26, 1994). American stand-up comedian and satirist. His material—encompassing a wide range of social issues including religion, politics, and philosophy—was controversial and often steeped in dark comedy. The Freedom: All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. We’re all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There’s… Lees verder Bill Hicks

Gerard Kornelis van het Reve: (Amsterdam, 14 December 1923 – Zulte, East Flanders, 8 April 2006). Gerard Kornelis van het Reve, was a Dutch writer and poet. His best-known works are De avonden (novel, 1947), Werther Nieland (novella, 1949), Op weg naar het einde (epistolary prose, 1963) and Nader tot U (prose, 1966). Together with… Lees verder Gerard Reve

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: (Ober-Ramstadt near Darmstadt, 1 July 1742 – Göttingen, 24 February 1799). German writer, satirist and the first German professor of experimental physics. Like Voltaire, he showed a great admiration for England. The highest degree of political freedom is directly related to despotism. What makes true friendship, and even more so the happy… Lees verder Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch: (Wiedensahl, in present-day Samtgemeinde Niedernwöhren, 15 April 1832 – Mechtshausen, municipality of Seesen, 9 January 1908). German poet, cartoonist and illustrator. His best-known creations are Max und Moritz (1865) and Die fromme Helene (1872). Tolerance is good, but not towards the intolerant. Envy is the sincerest form of recognition. The hedgehog… Lees verder Wilhelm Busch

Leonard Henry Courtney: 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith. (6 July 1832 – 11 May 1918). Radical British politician, and an academic, who became famous after being advocate of proportional representation in Parliament and acting as an opponent of imperialism and militarism. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Let the eye of vigilance never be… Lees verder Leonard H. Courtney

Nitin Namdeo: Indian instagram blogger and founder of Succedict.com a blog dedicated to spreading positivity. I love places where there are crowds of trees.

Wilhelmus Johannes Maria Antonius (Willem) Asselbergs: Better known by his pseudonym Anton van Duinkerken. (Bergen op Zoom, 2 January 1903 – Nijmegen, 27 July 1968). Dutch poet, essayist, professor, orator and literary historian. He received the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 1960 and the P.C. Hooft Prize six years later. Truth and freedom nowhere come closer… Lees verder Anton van Duinkerken

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin: (Paris, 7 June 1848 – Atuona in the Marquesas Islands, 8 May 1903). French painter. His work is usually characterised as post-impressionist, that from after 1891 as symbolist. Life being what it is, we dream of revenge. I shut my eyes in order to see.