Efesos, Turkey - 2006
1. ”And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”~
2. “A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
3. “A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.”
4. “For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.”
5. ”Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.”
6. ”He who would travel happily must travel light.”
7. “If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
8. "I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind."
9. ”In anything at all, perfection is finally attained, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.”
10. “It is as if there were a natural law which ordained that to achieve this end, to refine the curve of a piece of furniture, or a ship's keel, or the fuselage of an airplane, until gradually it partakes of the elemental purity of the curve of the human breast or shoulder, there must experimentation of several generations of craftsmen. In any thing at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.”
11. “It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.”
12. ”Let a man in a garret but burn with enough tensity and he will set fire to the whole world.”
13. “Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.“
14. ”Neither intelligence nor judgment are creative. If a sculptor is nothing but science and intelligence his hands will have no talent.”
15. ”Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.”
16. “One many may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.”
17. ”Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.”
18. “Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.”
19. “Philosophy is the battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
20. “They never say to you, 'What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?' Instead, they demand 'How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make?' Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.”
21. “Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures - in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.”
22. “What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute. There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity -- for where will the stone go, once it is quarried?”
23. “What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”
24. “What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.”
25. “When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.”
26. "You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are
responsible for your rose."
27. “You know you've achieved perfection in design,
Not when you have nothing more to add,
But when you have nothing more to take away.”
