From William Blake: “To see a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a Wild Flower,Hold Infinity in the palm of your handAnd Eternity in an hour.”
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Quote of the day 03/10/25
From Francis Bacon: “Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils.”
Quote of the day 03/02/25
From Francis Bacon: “They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.”
Quote of the day 02/05/25
From William Shakespeare: “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
Quote of the day 12/18/24
From Bertrand Russell: “In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
Quote of the day 10/12/24
From Immanuel Kant: “Look closely. The beautiful may be small.”
Quote of the day 09/04/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “That it doesn’t strike us at all when we look around us, move about in space, feel our own bodies, etc. etc., shows how natural these things are to us. We do not notice that we see space perspectivally or that our visual field is in some sense blurred towards the edges.Continue reading “Quote of the day 09/04/24”
Quote of the day 07/05/24
From Zhuangzi: “A frog in a well cannot discuss the ocean, because he is limited by the size of his well. A summer insect cannot discuss ice, because it knows only its own season. A narrow-minded scholar cannot discuss the Tao, because he is constrained by his teachings. Now you have come out of yourContinue reading “Quote of the day 07/05/24”
Quote of the day 05/11/24
From Dogen: “When you ride in a boat and watch the shore, you might assume that the shore is moving. But when you keep your eyes closely on the boat, you can see that the boat moves. Similarly, if you examine many things with a confused mind, you might suppose that your mind and natureContinue reading “Quote of the day 05/11/24”
Quote of the day 05/10/24
From Dogen: “When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots, but just paint Spring. To paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots is to paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots – it is not yet painting Spring.”
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