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“The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.”
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“Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.”
Source : Allan Massie (2010). “A Question Of Loyalties”, p.152, Canongate Books
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“Even when we get what we wish, it is not ours.”
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“By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth,”
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“Kurt Godel's achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental - indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark which will remain visible far in space and time. ... The subject of logic has certainly completely changed its nature and possibilities with Godel's achievement.”
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“I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment... a job.”
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“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.”
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“There is an urgent need to examine old opinions and look at things from a new viewpoint. There must be an increase in the joy one takes in an object, and the photographer should become fully conscious of the splendid fidelity of reproduction made possible by his technique. Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement.”
Source : Albert Renger-Patzsch, Donald Burton Kuspit, J. Paul Getty Museum (1993). “Albert Renger-Patzsch: joy before the object”, Getty Publications
