Guy Deutscher famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.
In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.
Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.
A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.
But even more: all at once the Jew also becomes liberal and begins to rave about the necessary progress of mankind.
Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.
We're all mankind and humankind - so just be one and show kindness.
Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of mankind.

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