great way to impress a clever man - just to mention a famous quote from the treasury of world literature.
However, many quotes taken out of context, are often exactly the opposite meaning.
Here are a few well-known phrases that people often understand wrong.
"Love, you move the world"
This misinterpreted quote from Lewis Carroll's famous fairy tale "Alice in Wonderland."One of the characters in the book Duchess casually utters this phrase after spanked your child for what he sneezed.In the context of the author used this wise saying sarcastically.
"And the moral here is:" Love, love, you move the world ... - said the Duchess.
Someone said, as if the most important thing - not to meddle in other people's business, - whispered to Alice.
So this oneis the same, - murmured Duchess ".
"God helps those who help themselves"
This phrase referred to as a passage from the Bible, though it never appeared in any of the translations of the book.It is also believed that she uttered the famous American actor Benjamin Franklin, and British theorist Algernon Sidney.
idea is that divinity can not replace the action of the man himself.
Interestingly, this phrase is contrary to what is said in the Bible, where the only salvation in God, who "will save the helpless."
"Money - the root of all evil"
This phrase is a misinterpretation of quotes, "The love of money - the root of all evil", which was mentioned in the New Testament, the Apostle Paul.
And even this phrase is a distorted translation of the Greek phrase, which meant that greed can lead to a variety of troubles, not that all evil lies in the love of money.
stronger sense this quotation gained perhaps during the industrial revolution, when the company was focused on the accumulation of wealth.
"end justifies the means"
This quote, which is attributed to the Italian thinker Machiavelli, has the opposite significance of this phrase, which was used in his work "The Emperor."
It says "Si guarda al fine", ie, "should consider the final result", which means "the end does not always justify the means."In other words, instead of being ruthless in achieving the great goal, Machiavelli was trying to say that it is always necessary to consider whether there are some things the victims and efforts.
"Religion - the opium of the people"
This is another example of misinterpretation of the words of Karl Marx's famous.Not only did he never directly said that religion - it is the opium of the people, but the words themselves at the time had a completely different meaning.
quote that was used as a criticism of the work of Hegel, was the following:
"Religion - the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is - soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people".
somewhat ambiguous phrase, since in those days opium was not considered material, clouding the mind, and opiates were legal, freely sold and were considered useful drug.From this perspective, Marx considered religion a useful tool that facilitates suffering.
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