Quotes Tagged With :friedrich

To say that "the worker has an interest in the rapid growth of capital", means only this: that the more....

Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored....

What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of....

The man consummatig his life dies his death triumphantly,surrounded by men filled with hope and making....

Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and....

Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say: when....

[On scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss][Carl Friedrich] Gauss told his friend Rudolf Wagner, a professor....

Ostwald was a great protagonist and an inspiring teacher. He had the gift of saying the right thing in....

The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues....

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous....