Lehrstuhl Sethe Quotes & Sayings

By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression. — Sigmund Freud

When everyone you know is on the verge of drowning, you don't stop to tell the person next to you that you don't like swimming. — Veronica Rossi

Much has seen said of the wisdom of old age. Old age is wise, I grant, for itself, but not wise for the community. It is wise in declining new enterprises, for it has not the power nor the time to execute them; wise in shrinking from difficulty, for it has not the strength to overcome it; wise in avoiding danger, for it lacks the faculty of ready and swift action, by which dangers are parried and converted into advantages. But this is not wisdom for mankind at large, by whom new enterprises must be undertaken, dangers met, and difficulties surmounted. — William C. Bryant

If mind is seen not as a threat but as a guide to emotion, if intellect is seen neither as a guarantee of character nor as an inevitable danger to it, if theory is conceived as something serviceable but not necessarily subordinate or inferior to practice, and if our democratic aspirations are defined in such realistic and defensible terms as to admit of excellence, all these supposed antagonisms lose their force. — Richard Hofstadter

It's a mind, it works by metaphor. — Simon J. Townley

Perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date has been the Montreal Protocol. — Kofi Annan

We are not the slaves of laziness,
we are the slaves of WiFi. — Zelo

For me, being in front of a camera is a matter of practicing and refining your art. I think, if you're telling a story worth telling, it's worth investing the time into developing. — Danny Pino