From Lao Tzu: “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
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Quote of the day 11/23/24
From Jean Baudrillard: “We live in a world where there is more and more information.”
Quote of the day 11/22/24
From Gaston Bachelard: “All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.”
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 11/19/24
From Gaston Bachelard: “A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.”
Quote of the day 11/18/24
From Marcus Aurelius: “We should remember that even Nature’s inadvertence has its own charm, its own attractiveness. The way loaves of bread split open on top in the oven; the ridges are just by-products of the baking, and yet pleasing, somehow: they rouse our appetite without our knowing why.Or how ripe figs begin to burst.AndContinue reading “Quote of the day 11/18/24”
Quote of the day 11/17/24
From Gaston Bachelard: “Daydreams transport the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.”
Quote of the day 11/16/24
From Gaston Bachelard: “A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.”
Quote of the day 11/15/24
From Gaston Bachelard: “Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.”
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