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”
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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.”
Quote of the day 09/17/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Remember that we sometimes demand explanations for the sake not of their content, but of their form. Our requirement is an architectural one; the explanation a kind of sham corbel that supports nothing.”
Quote of the day 09/08/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because it is always before one’s eyes.) The real foundations of his inquiry do not strike a man at all.”
Quote of the day 09/06/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.”
Quote of the day 08/29/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.”
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