Philosopher's Touch
The "Philosopher's Touch" was made
using countless letter beads to spell out actual quotes from famous thinkers of
the world.
Here they are, in order:
1.) Those who cannot remember the past are
condemned to repeat it.
George
Santayana, Life of Reason
2.) Quod bonum est, bonos facit.
(Translated: That which is good makes men good.)
Seneca, Epistulae Ad Cucilium
3.) Peace cannot be kept by force. It can
only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein, Notes on Pacifism
4.) Therefore the sage while clad in
homespun conceals on his person a priceless piece of jade.
Lao Tsu
5.) Ich habe viel in der Welt versucht und
immer dasselbe gefunden. (Translated: I have tried much in this world but
always found the same.)
Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, 1. Buch
6.) One day, with life and heart, is more
than time enough to find a world.
James Russell Lowell, Columbus
7.) The pearl is a disease of the oyster. A
poem is a disease of the spirit caused by the irritation of a granule of
truth fallen into that soft gray bivalve we call the mind.
Christopher Morley, Bivalves
8.) Demut kennt nicht der matte, feige,
schwankende Mann, sondern nur der kraftvolle, mutige und entschlossene.
(Translated: Humility is not known by the weak, cowardly, wavering man,
but only by the strong, courageous and resolving one.)
Perthes
9.) I am free from desire and the people of
themselves become simple like the uncarved block.
Lao Tsu
10.) L'amour n'est pas tous, mais sans
l'amour tout est rien. (Translated: Love is not everything, but without it
everything is nothing.)
French
proverb
11.) Forgiveness is better than revenge,
for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge the sign of a
savage nature.
Epictetus, Fragments
No. 68
12.) No man can justly censure or condemn
another, because indeed no man truly knows another.
Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, pt 11, sec.
4
13.) Thou shalt sleep in thy clouds,
careless of the voice of the morning.
MacPherson, Ossian: Address to the sun
The beads on this panel have
not been dedicated yet. Once these beads have been dedicated, you can find
the list of dedications in the Journal.
