Van Meir

Famous quotes containing the words van and/or meir:

“One could love reason like an Encyclopaedist and still be favorably inclined toward mysticism. Throughout the ages, up to the eyes of van Gogh, when he looked at a coffee pot or a garden path, mysticism has expanded the human realm by all sorts of threshold experiences.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)

“Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.”
—Golda Meir (1898–1978)