Virtue, Confucius

To be able to practise five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

- Confucius, Analects, fifth century B.C.

Essence, John Adams

When we say that God is a spirit, we know what we mean, as well as we do when we say that the pyramids of Egypt are matter. Let us be content, therefore, to believe him to be a spirit, that is, an essence that we know nothing of, in which originally and necessarily reside all energy, all power, all capacity, all activity, all wisdom, all goodness.

- John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson (17 January 1820)

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Passion, Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

- Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Journal Intime, entry for December 17, 1856 (1882).

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Film, Federico Fellini

The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all, that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open, has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed?

- Federico Fellini [on the Decline of Cinema], a Fellini Lexicon, (1992)

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Science, Ivan Pavlov

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

- Ivan Pavlov

새의 날개가 아무리 완벽할지라도 공기가 없다면 그 날개는 결코 새를 들어 올릴 수 없습니다. 과학에 있어 사실은 공기와 같습니다. 사실 없이는 과학자는 결코 성공할 수 없습니다.

- 이반 파블로프

Practice, Greek Proverb

Practice is everything.

- Greek Proverb

훈련은 모든 것이다.

- 그리스속담

Time, Spanish Proverb

Time ripens all things.

- Spanish Proverb

시간은 만물을 성숙하게 한다.

- 스페인속담

Money, Publilius Syrus

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

- Publilius Syrus

돈만으로도 세상은 돌아간다.

- 퍼블릴리어스 사이러스

Virtue, David Starr Jordan

Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.

- David Starr Jordan, "Ideals of Stanford", quoted in The Land of Sunshine: A Southern California Magazine, Vol. 9, No. 1. (Los Angeles, June 1898), p. 11

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Essence, Yehuda Ashlag

Know that the essence of a person, as such, is quite impossible to perceive without his material embodiment …This is because our five senses and our imagination do not offer us anything more than the revelation of the actions of the essence, but not the essence itself.

- Yehuda Ashlag, as quoted in "Preface to the Book of Zohar", in Introduction to the Book of Zohar: Volume Two (2005) edited by Michael Laitman, p. 30

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