what (interesting) people have said

  • Mr Keuner was asked what he was working on. Mr Keuner replied: "I am terribly busy - I'm preparing my next mistake."

  • From Bertolt Brecht's Geschichten vom Herrn Keuner.

    (Since, the Keuners have graduated; they are now world leaders)

  • It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

  • Albert Einstein

  • You must love responsibility. You should tell yourself: I, and I alone, must save the world. And if the world is not saved, I am to blame.

  • Nikos Kazantzakis (from Ascetica)

  • The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

  • Winston Churchill

  • Socrates is my academic idol: his contributions and fame lasted through the millenia. Yet, he never published anything.

  • Said by a friend

    Corollary: find your Plato.

  • Diversity is prized except in the most important realm of all, diversity of thought. The academies that, through the unique system of tenure, once enshrined freedom of opinion and inquiry, now frequently are home to the narrowest sort of closed-mindedness and the worst repression of dissident ideas.

  • From an open letter by Purdue University President Mitchell E. Daniels Jr.; an excerpt from a list of the most frequent criticisms against contemporary academia.

  • The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

  • George Bernard Shaw

  • The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

  • Aristotle

  • The older I get, the better I was.

  • Said by the honoree at a ceremony honoring him, after having listened to others praising his life's accomplishments.

  • I don't hope for anything, I am not afraid of anything, I liberated myself from mind and soul, I climbed higher, I am free.

  • Nikos Kazantzakis (from Ascetica) - the unattainable