“Extend your life, not the number of years!”
– unknown, mp
Category Archives: QUOTATIONS
Inspiration
“Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
(Harold R. McAlindon, also Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 – 1882)
Integrity (2)
“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.” (Indira Gandhi)
Making an impact
“Most people with a sparking idea try to boil the ocean.
Some light a candle.”
– mp
Truth is the invention of a liar
“Truth is the invention of a liar.” – Heinz von Foerster clearly stated, that truth has the character of a chameleon, “it takes on whatever color the user wants it to have.” It separates people who are right, and those who are not right. It is the basis for making the other person be ‘wrong’. Or in other words, you make the other person a liar…
As a result, would we not live much better without the concept of ‘truth’?
Reference: Heinz von Foerster, Bernhard Pörksen: Understanding Systems, Conversations on Epistemology and Ethics [2002]
Half a glass of water
“Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.”
Henry Ford
Integrity
“Integrity is about doing the right things, even if nobody is watching.”
(unknown)
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Failure
“I have Not Failed I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931)
Wahrheit
“Wenn der Begriff der Wahrheit überhaupt nicht mehr vorkäme, könnten wir vermutlich alle friedlich miteinander leben.”
– Heinz von Foerster in einem DIE ZEIT-Interview mit Bernd Pörksen, 1998.