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?”
Tag Archives: life
Quote of the day 09/21/24
From Rabindranath Tagore: “The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
Quote of the day 09/20/24
From Rabindranath Tagore: “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
Quote of the day 09/19/24
From Rabindranath Tagore: “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
Quote of the day 09/10/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.”
Quote of the day 09/07/24
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.”
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.”