Famous quotes containing the words carl friedrich, carl, friedrich, years and/or death:
“The freedom to share one’s insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienable right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes.”
—Carl Friedrich Bahrdt (1740–1792)
“The millere was a stout carl for the nones;”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)
“Meanwhile, if the fear of falling into error sets up a mistrust of Science, which in the absence of such scruples gets on with the work itself, and actually cognizes something, it is hard to see why we should not turn round and mistrust this very mistrust.... What calls itself fear of error reveals itself rather as fear of the truth.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I’d love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.”
—Luis Buñuel (1900–1983)
“When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)