From Francis Bacon: “No pleasure is comparable to the standing on the vantage ground of truth.”
Tag Archives: philosophy
Quote of the day 04/04/25
From William Wordsworth: “Let nature be your teacher.”
Quote of the day 04/03/25
From R.H. Blyth: “We are to ask fervently, to seek passionately, to knock madly – but it must be for nothing. When our self is all asked, sought, knocked away, everything is given, found, opened.”
Quote of the day 04/02/25
From R.H. Blyth: “…poetry, like religion, must be ascetic, must have the element of poverty in it.”
Quote of the day 04/01/25
From Lewis Carrol: “‘Tut, tut, child!’ said the Duchess. ‘Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.’”
Quote of the day 03/31/25
From William Wordsworth: “The best portion of a good man’s life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
Quote of the day 03/30/25
From Basho: “Ah, hanging bridge! Ivy-ropes Entwine existence!”
Quote of the day 03/28/25
From Emily Dickinson: “Forever is composed of nows.”
Quote of the day 03/27/25
From R.H. Blyth: “To the pure, all things are pure. To the divine, all things are divine.”
Quote of the day 03/26/25
From William Shakespeare: “All places that the eye of heaven visits, are to a wise man ports and happy havens.”