From Marcus Tullius Cicero: “Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;Attempting to compel others to believe andContinue reading “Quote of the day 09/30/24”
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Quote of the day 09/27/24
From Rabindranath Tagore: “The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”
Quote of the day 09/26/24
From Rabindranath Tagore: “The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.”
Quote of the day 09/25/24
From Rabindranath Tagore: “Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.”
Quote of the day 09/24/24
From Rabindranath Tagore: “We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”
Quote of the day 09/23/24
From Rabindranath Tagore: “A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses 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 09/15/24
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 09/09/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.”
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