💬 Quotes

"Man kann sich das Schachspiel als eine Wissenschaft ohne Endpunkt vorstellen, als ein System, das sich in sich selbst verschlingt."

"Die Monotonie dieser absoluten Leere, dieses Nichts, das mich umgab, trieb mich dazu, mich an irgendetwas festzuklammern."

"Er war ein Schachgenie von absolutem Format, aber eben nur das: ein Automat, in dem das Schachprogramm mechanisch ablief."

"Hospital Sketches is not a record of glory, but a record of suffering, endurance, and quiet heroism."

"The ward was a microcosm of the great conflict outside—divided by politics, yet united in pain."

"In the presence of such vast suffering, words lose their power, leaving only the eloquence of service."

"A soldier's courage is tested not merely in the sudden flash of battle, but in the long, silent hours of convalescence."

"The humblest cottage and the grandest hall are alike to the grim visitor who walks these corridors."

"We learn the true cost of our national preservation not from the reports of generals, but from the pale faces upon these narrow cots."

"The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residuary datum; their material polish should be at least the symbol of their extreme rarity."

"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? We should live in all the ages of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages."

"Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written."

"The universe is wider than our views of it."

"Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth."

"A man receives only what he is ready to receive, whether physically or intellectually or morally, as the animals receive each their food and their poison."

"It is written upon the rocks in a thousand ways, that suffering is the badge of the human race, but we have chosen to think it is only the badge of the unblessed."

"He who strives for the wealth of others shall find only emptiness, but he who shares what little he has shall find the golden river within his own heart."

"The earth gives its treasures not to the greedy who demand them with curses, but to the patient who ask with labor and love."

"Water is the mother of the vine, the nurse of the acorn, the sustainer of all life; yet it can become a roaring terror when poisoned by malice."

"The black stones of selfishness had built a wall higher than any mountain, shutting out the warmth of the sun and the grace of the rain."