From Cormac McCarthy: “Your heart’s desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.”
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Quote of the day 03/08/24
From Arthur Schopenhauer: “The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.”
Quote of the day 03/07/24
From Arthur Schopenhauer: “Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.”
Quote of the day 03/06/24
From Arthur Schopenhauer: “A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
Quote of the day 03/05/24
From Arthur Schopenhauer: “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
Quote of the day 03/04/24
From James Joyce: “The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
Quote of the day 03/03/24
From James Joyce: “I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.”
Quote of the day 03/02/24
From James Joyce: “Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.”
Quote of the day 03/01/24
From James Joyce: “Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.”
Quote of the day 02/29/24
From James Joyce: “Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.”