From Heraclitus: “Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one.”
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Quote of the day 11/09/24
From Heraclitus: “The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.”
Quote of the day 11/05/24
From Heraclitus: “Much learning does not teach understanding.”
Quote of the day 10/22/24
From Desiderius Erasmus: “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
Quote of the day 10/14/24
From Immanuel Kant: “Enlightenment is man’s release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man’s inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! ‘HaveContinue reading “Quote of the day 10/14/24”
Quote of the day 10/08/24
From Marcus Tullius Cicero: “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
Quote of the day 10/04/24
From George Orwell: “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
Quote of the day 10/01/24
From Marcus Tullius Cicero: “To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
Quote of the day 09/27/24
From Rabindranath Tagore: “The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”
Quote of the day 09/24/24
From Rabindranath Tagore: “We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”
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