From George Berkeley: “I know what I mean by the term I and myself; and I know this immediately, or intuitively, though I do not perceive it as I perceive a triangle, a colour, or a sound.”
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Quote of the day 07/31/24
From George Berkeley: “To be is to be perceived.”
Quote of the day 07/30/24
From George Berkeley: “A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.”
Quote of the day 07/29/24
From George Berkeley: “Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to ourselves–that we have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.”
Quote of the day 07/28/24
From George Berkeley: “In vain do we extend our view into the heavens, and pry into the entrails of the earth, in vain do we consult the writings of learned men, and trace the dark footsteps of antiquity; we need only draw the curtain of words, to behold the fairest tree of knowledge, whose fruitContinue reading “Quote of the day 07/28/24”
Quote of the day 07/27/24
From Ralph Waldo Emerson: “It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
Quote of the day 07/26/24
From Ralph Waldo Emerson: “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
Quote of the day 07/25/24
From Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your oldContinue reading “Quote of the day 07/25/24”
Quote of the day 07/24/24
From Zhuangzi: “During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.”
Quote of the day 07/23/24
From Zhuangzi: There was an old and crooked oak tree by the village shrine, every branch twisted and gnarled. The tree was large enough to shade several thousand oxen and was a hundred spans around. It towered above the hilltops with its lowest branches eighty feet from the ground. More than ten of its branchesContinue reading “Quote of the day 07/23/24”
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