Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities - Research based on the Posnan School with the objective to elaborate a philosophy of history which tries to explain the most important turning points in the history of mankind (like the Russian Revolution or the events leading up to the fall of Communism in Poland), using a wealth of idealisational models which have their theoretical and methodological roots in the conception of science typical of the School.
Lechia Poznan Students Fraternity - Students organization developing friendship among members, as well as patriotic and educational activities. History, customs, pictures.
Poznan University of Technology - Authorities, organizational units, studies guide, recruitment, students' activities, conferences, graduates meeting.
Poznañ University of Economics - Offers English programs in business and economics for foreign students. Includes an academic calendar, information about faculty, facilities and the city of Poznan.
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Education All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Education
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Education "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Education
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Education A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Education
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Education "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Education
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Education "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Education
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Education To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Education
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Education
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Education I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Education
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Education
"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Education "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Education
