Jul25
Oscar Wilde
“ The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. ”
Jul22
Konrad Lorenz
“ I believe I found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us. ”
Jul20
Ortega y Gasset, “On Love”
“ It is not that love sometimes makes mistakes, but that it is, essentially, a mistake. We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfections on to another person. One day the phantasmagoria vanishes, and with it love dies. ”
Jul18
Robert Southwell
“ My mind to me an empire is, While grace affordeth health. ”
Jul16
John Meacham, “The Loss of Wisdom”
“ To be wise is not to know particular facts but to know without excessive confidence or excessive cautiousness. Wisdom is thus not a belief, a value, a set of facts, a corpus of knowledge or information in some specialized area, or a set of special abilities or skills. Wisdom is an attitude taken by persons toward the beliefs, values, knowledge, information, abilities, and skills that are held, a tendency to doubt that these are necessarily true or valid and to doubt that they are an exhaustive set of those things that could be known. ”
Jul14
Hans Christian Anderson
“ Every person’s life is a fairy tale, written by God’s fingers. ”
Jul11
Heraclitus
“ No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river, and he’s not the same man ”