From William James: “Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events.”
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Quote of the day 10/23/25
From William Shakespeare: “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
Quote of the day 08/21/25
From Henri Bergson: “Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”
Quote of the day 07/26/25
From John Donne: “Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right,By these we reach divinity”
Quote of the day 04/05/25
From Francis Bacon: “No pleasure is comparable to the standing on the vantage ground of truth.”
Quote of the day 03/23/25
From R.H. Blyth: “…we have, not, ‘Though it changes, it is the same,’ which is intellectually understandable, but, ‘The more it changes, the more it is the same.’ This touch of life, of genius, of inspiration, of Zen, of something beyond logic and rationality, gives us a strange feeling of freedom and power.”
Quote of the day 03/20/25
From R.H. Blyth: “…there is a danger that the paradox may be taken as overstepping the mark, as exaggeration for the sake of effect, in answer to the overweening claims of the reason. Such is not the case. To repeat, there is both a shadow and is not a shadow beneath the pine tree. TheContinue reading “Quote of the day 03/20/25”
Quote of the day 03/19/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Reason grips life with a stranglehold, but life says, ‘To win, is to lose,’ and as in Judo, uses the power of the enemy to escape from it.”
Quote of the day 03/18/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Paradoxes are the bright banners of the liberty of the mind. They proclaim that the mind is free to bestow or withhold values.”
Quote of the day 01/25/25
From Marcus Aurelius: “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
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