From John Donne: “Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right,By these we reach divinity”
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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.”
Quote of the day 11/02/24
From Plutarch’ “For though all persons are equally subject to the caprice of fortune, yet all good men have one advantage she cannot deny, which is this, to act reasonably under misfortunes.”
Quote of the day 10/16/24
From Immanuel Kant: “Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.”
Quote of the day 06/28/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.”
