Nikola Tesla on destruction
“Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.”
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My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.
Nikola TeslaNikola Tesla To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.
Nikola TeslaNikola Tesla Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
Nikola TeslaNikola Tesla To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to hasten the end.
Nikola TeslaNikola Tesla If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.
Nikola TeslaNikola Tesla We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.
Nikola TeslaNikola Tesla All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed – only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.
Nikola TeslaNikola Tesla The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Nikola TeslaNikola Tesla I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.
Nikola TeslaNikola Tesla A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.
Nikola TeslaNikola Tesla My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.
Nikola TeslaNikola Tesla Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.
Nikola TeslaNikola Tesla My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or vice by someone else’s efforts or protests, but only by the use of his own will.
Nikola TeslaNikola Tesla Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences.
Nikola TeslaNikola Tesla Crystals are living beings at the beginning of creation.
Nikola TeslaNikola Tesla I don’t care that they stole my idea. I care that they don’t have any of their own
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
Emily BronteEmily Bronte I believe in God. When everything collapses, we grip the last hold, we look from the secure haven how the godless society of the old, holy Europe falls apart. May the game begin.
Joseph GoebbelsJoseph Goebbels To the Spains will come a very powerful king, by land and sea subjugating the South; This will cause harm, lowering again the crescent, clipping the wings of those of Friday.
NostradamusNostradamus There will come a day, when all the lies will collapse under their own weight, and truth will again triumph.
Joseph GoebbelsJoseph Goebbels Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.
Joseph GoebbelsJoseph Goebbels Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
Jules VerneJules Verne The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
Jules VerneJules Verne As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state.
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