From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.”
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Quote of the day 08/24/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.”
Quote of the day 08/23/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”
Quote of the day 08/20/24
From Jack London: “Every book was a peep-hole into the realm of knowledge. His hunger fed upon what he read, and increased.”
Quote of the day 08/14/24
From John Steinbeck: “No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”
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 07/29/24
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 06/17/24
From Zhuangzi: “Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.”
Quote of the day 05/21/24
From Alan Watts: “The more a person knows of himself, the more he will hesitate to define his nature and to assert what he must necessarily feel, and the more he will be astounded at his capacity to feel in unsuspected and unpredictable ways.”
Quote of the day 03/16/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “They were watching, out there past men’s knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.”
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