From Marcus Aurelius: “We should remember that even Nature’s inadvertence has its own charm, its own attractiveness. The way loaves of bread split open on top in the oven; the ridges are just by-products of the baking, and yet pleasing, somehow: they rouse our appetite without our knowing why.Or how ripe figs begin to burst.AndContinue reading “Quote of the day 11/18/24”
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Quote of the day 10/30/24
From Plutarch: “Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.”
Quote of the day 10/24/24
From Desiderius Erasmus: “And so when the whole man will be outside himself, and happy for no reason except that he is so outside himself, he will enjoy some of the ineffable share in the supreme good which draws everything into itself.”
Quote of the day 10/12/24
From Immanuel Kant: “Look closely. The beautiful may be small.”
Quote of the day 08/07/24
From John Steinbeck: “There’s more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
Quote of the day 03/18/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately beContinue reading “Quote of the day 03/18/24”
Quote of the day 01/08/24
From David Hume: “Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”
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