Everything is the Light - Interview with Nikola Tesla 1899
Just before the beginning of the 20th Century one the greatest geniuses of that century and of all time, Nikola Tesla, gave an interview with journalist John Smith.
Tesla said “Everything is the Light“. In one of its rays is the fate of nations, each nation has its own ray in that great light source, which we see as the Sun.....
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“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
― Nikola Tesla
“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”
― Nikola Tesla
“My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.”
― Nikola Tesla
“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success . . . Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”
― Nikola Tesla
Here is a modern rendition of the complete interview from YouTube:
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“When we speak of man, we have a conception of humanity as a whole, and before applying scientific methods to the investigation of his movement we must accept this as a physical fact. But can anyone doubt to-day that all the millions of individuals and all the innumerable types and characters constitute an entity, a unit? Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them. I cut myself in the finger, and it pains me: this finger is a part of me. I see a friend hurt, and it hurts me, too: my friend and I are one. And now I see stricken down an enemy, a lump of matter which, of all the lumps of matter in the universe, I care least for, and it still grieves me. Does this not prove that each of us is only part of a whole?
For ages this idea has been proclaimed in the consummately wise teachings of religion, probably not alone as a means of insuring peace and harmony among men, but as a deeply founded truth. The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one. Metaphysical proofs are, however, not the only ones which we are able to bring forth in support of this idea. Science, too, recognizes this connectedness of separate individuals, though not quite in the same sense as it admits that the suns, planets, and moons of a constellation are one body, and there can be no doubt that it will be experimentally confirmed in times to come, when our means and methods for investigating psychical and other states and phenomena shall have been brought to great perfection. Still more: this one human being lives on and on. The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains. Therein lies the profound difference between the individual and the whole.”
― Nikola Tesla
From my in depth research of Nikola Tesla, I do not find the 1899 interview to be authentically Tesla. The grammar, terminology and manner of the responses which are supposedly Nikola Tesla, do not fit very well with the style of the other quotes you have above and many of his other interviews. Not only that, but there are chronological errors as well. Keep it real.
Absolutely correct observation @subductive ...This text is borrowed from a 1995 play by Stevan Pesic - a Belgrade based theatrical writer - and his play "Tesla - Adaptation of an Angel" was performed on stage for several seasons in front of live audiences, and because of the catchy narrative translated from Serbian and resurfaced online without quoting the actual source.
Below is a link to one of the subsequent remakes of the play - turned into a TV drama, featuring a new cast: