From William James: “Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events.”
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Quote of the day 10/23/25
From William Shakespeare: “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
Quote of the day 10/14/25
From Albert Einstein: “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
Quote of the day 04/05/25
From Francis Bacon: “No pleasure is comparable to the standing on the vantage ground of truth.”
Quote of the day 03/23/25
From R.H. Blyth: “…we have, not, ‘Though it changes, it is the same,’ which is intellectually understandable, but, ‘The more it changes, the more it is the same.’ This touch of life, of genius, of inspiration, of Zen, of something beyond logic and rationality, gives us a strange feeling of freedom and power.”
Quote of the day 03/20/25
From R.H. Blyth: “…there is a danger that the paradox may be taken as overstepping the mark, as exaggeration for the sake of effect, in answer to the overweening claims of the reason. Such is not the case. To repeat, there is both a shadow and is not a shadow beneath the pine tree. TheContinue reading “Quote of the day 03/20/25”
Quote of the day 03/19/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Reason grips life with a stranglehold, but life says, ‘To win, is to lose,’ and as in Judo, uses the power of the enemy to escape from it.”
Quote of the day 11/21/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “All philosophy is ‘Critique of Language.’ Russell’s merit is to have shown that the apparent logical form of the proposition need not be its real form.”
Quote of the day 11/20/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Most propositions and questions that have been written about philosophical matters are not false, but senseless. We can not, therefore, answer questions of this kind at all, but only state their senselessness. Most questions and propositions of the philosophers result from the fact that we do not understand the logic of ourContinue reading “Quote of the day 11/20/24”
Quote of the day 09/23/24
From Rabindranath Tagore: “A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”
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