Famous quotes containing the words carl friedrich, carl, friedrich, middle and/or years:
“The freedom to share ones 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 (17401792)
“The millere was a stout carl for the nones;”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?1400)
“The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (17701831)
“Real socialism is inside man. It wasnt born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You cant say it is finished.”
—Dario Fo (b. 1926)
“Unlike Boswell, whose Journals record a long and unrewarded search for a self, Johnson possessed a formidable one. His life in Londonhe arrived twenty-five years earlier than Boswellturned out to be a long defense of the values of Augustan humanism against the pressures of other possibilities. In contrast to Boswell, Johnson possesses an identity not because he has gone in search of one, but because of his allegiance to a set of assumptions that he regards as objectively true.”
—Jeffrey Hart (b. 1930)