The fifteen-year-old daughter of a friend once addressed the old Carl Jung as follows: "Herr Professor, you are so clever. Could you please tell me the shortest path to my life's goal?" Without a moment's hesitation Jung replied, "The detour! —Richard Kehl More about this quote Tags: effort goals detour Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
[The philosopher] Wittgenstein writes about a man who, not being certain of an item he reads in the newspaper, buys one hundred copies of the paper to reassure himself of its truth. —Richard Kehl More about this quote Tags: truth man Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Once, when a GI was visiting Pablo Picasso during the liberation of France, he said that he could not understand the artist's paintings: "Why do you paint a person looking from the side and from the front at the same time?" Picasso asked, "Do you have a girlfriend?" "Yes," replied the soldier. "Do you have a picture of her?" The soldier pulled from his wallet a photograph of the girl. Picasso looked at it in mock astonishment and asked, "Is she so small? —Richard Kehl More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The British during World War ii came up with some imaginative ideas. One was to freeze the clouds, move them along the coast of southern England, and use them as platforms for antiaircraft guns. —Richard Kehl More about this quote Tags: history guns weather WWII Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email