From Richard Rorty: “The world does not speak. Only we do.”
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Quote of the day 12/09/25
From William James: “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
Quote of the day 12/01/25
From Boethius: “Nothing is miserable unless you think it so”
Quote of the day 11/30/25
From Søren Kierkegaard: “The paradox is the passion of thought.”
Quote of the day 09/26/25
From Chrysippus: “If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied 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 08/20/25
From Henri Bergson: “To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
Quote of the day 08/17/25
From E.E. Cummings: “Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody but yourself.”
Quote of the day 06/03/25
From R.H. Blyth: “We do zazen, not to get anything, but to throw away all we have and to throw away even the idea that we are throwing something away. ‘A still-soliciting eye.’ This is the precise opposite of Wordsworth’s ‘a quiet eye’; it is the disease of the mind, to be always, incessantly, evenContinue reading “Quote of the day 06/03/25”
Quote of the day 05/30/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Words are many and the thing is one, but somehow it has got to be portrayed or suggested in words, but as a unity, not after the post-mortem of thought, not after the dissection of the intellect.”