From Rabindranath Tagore: “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
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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 09/18/24
From Rabindranath Tagore: “Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, butfor the heart to conquer it.”
Quote of the day 09/17/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Remember that we sometimes demand explanations for the sake not of their content, but of their form. Our requirement is an architectural one; the explanation a kind of sham corbel that supports nothing.”
Quote of the day 09/16/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “An entire mythology is stored within our language.”
Quote of the day 09/15/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.”
Quote of the day 09/14/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Music conveys to us itself!”
Quote of the day 09/13/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Man has to awaken to wonder – and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.”
Quote of the day 09/12/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.”
Quote of the day 09/11/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.”