From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse’s good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.”
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Quote of the day 08/30/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.”
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.”
Quote of the day 08/26/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.”
Quote of the day 08/19/24
From Jack London: “There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.”
Quote of the day 08/18/24
From Jack London: “And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.”
Quote of the day 08/17/24
From Jack London: “Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
Quote of the day 08/15/24
From Jack London: “The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
Quote of the day 08/09/24
From John Steinbeck: “I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There isContinue reading “Quote of the day 08/09/24”
Quote of the day 08/08/24
From John Steinbeck: “I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
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