From John Steinbeck: “And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”
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Quote of the day 08/02/24
From Zhuangzi: “I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.”
Quote of the day 08/01/24
From George Berkeley: “I know what I mean by the term I and myself; and I know this immediately, or intuitively, though I do not perceive it as I perceive a triangle, a colour, or a sound.”
Quote of the day 07/31/24
From George Berkeley: “To be is to be perceived.”
Quote of the day 07/30/24
From George Berkeley: “A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.”
Quote of the day 07/29/24
From George Berkeley: “Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to ourselves–that we have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.”
Quote of the day 07/28/24
From George Berkeley: “In vain do we extend our view into the heavens, and pry into the entrails of the earth, in vain do we consult the writings of learned men, and trace the dark footsteps of antiquity; we need only draw the curtain of words, to behold the fairest tree of knowledge, whose fruitContinue reading “Quote of the day 07/28/24”
Quote of the day 07/27/24
From Ralph Waldo Emerson: “It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
Quote of the day 07/26/24
From Ralph Waldo Emerson: “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
Quote of the day 07/25/24
From Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your oldContinue reading “Quote of the day 07/25/24”
