Tuesday 19 March 2024

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! 
When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Monday 18 March 2024

Sunday 17 March 2024

It's not that the Irish are cynical. 
It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect 
for everything 
and everybody.

Saturday 16 March 2024

Friday 15 March 2024

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, 
and make an outward pretence to it; 
but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

Thursday 14 March 2024

Wednesday 13 March 2024

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Tuesday 12 March 2024

Monday 11 March 2024

Spring was moving in the air above 
and in the earth below and around him, 
penetrating even his dark and lowly little house 
with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

Sunday 10 March 2024

Saturday 9 March 2024

The subjectivisation of the universal in art 
brings the universal downward 
on one hand, 
while on the other 
it helps raise the individual toward the universal.

Friday 8 March 2024

Thursday 7 March 2024

The insufferable arrogance of human beings 
to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, 
as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire 
merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.

Wednesday 6 March 2024

Tuesday 5 March 2024

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

Monday 4 March 2024

Sunday 3 March 2024

Treat all men alike. 
Give them the same law. 
Give them an even chance to live and grow.

Saturday 2 March 2024

Friday 1 March 2024

All the forces in the world are not so powerful 
as an idea whose time has come.

Thursday 29 February 2024

Wednesday 28 February 2024

I count religion but a childish toy, 
and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

Tuesday 27 February 2024

Monday 26 February 2024

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

Sunday 25 February 2024

Saturday 24 February 2024

If the freedom of speech is taken away 
then dumb and silent we may be led,
 like sheep to the slaughter.

Friday 23 February 2024

Thursday 22 February 2024

Good can imagine Evil; 
but Evil cannot imagine Good.

Wednesday 21 February 2024

Tuesday 20 February 2024

In scientific subjects, 
the natural remedy for dogmatism 
has been found in research.

Monday 19 February 2024

Sunday 18 February 2024

The real cause of personal existence 
is not the favour of the Almighty, 
but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.

Saturday 17 February 2024

Friday 16 February 2024

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Thursday 15 February 2024

Wednesday 14 February 2024

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Tuesday 13 February 2024

Monday 12 February 2024

I would say that all traditional philosophies 
up to and including Marxism 
have tried to derive the 'ought' from the 'is.' 
My point of view is that this is impossible; 
this is a farce.

Sunday 11 February 2024

Saturday 10 February 2024

Endurance is nobler than strength, 
and patience than beauty.

Friday 9 February 2024

Thursday 8 February 2024

When truth is no longer free, 
freedom is no longer real

Wednesday 7 February 2024

Tuesday 6 February 2024

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.

Monday 5 February 2024

Sunday 4 February 2024

Poetry, 
even when apparently most fantastic, 
is always a revolt against artifice, 
a revolt, 
in a sense, 
against actuality.

Saturday 3 February 2024

Friday 2 February 2024

To grow mature is 
to separate more distinctly, 
to connect more closely.

Thursday 1 February 2024

Wednesday 31 January 2024

Just as people behave to me, 
so do I behave to them.

Tuesday 30 January 2024

Monday 29 January 2024

Always speak the truth, 
think before you speak, 
and write it down afterwards.

Sunday 28 January 2024

Saturday 27 January 2024

It is not enough to know your craft — 
you have to have feeling. 
Science is all very well, 
but for us imagination is worth far more.

Friday 26 January 2024

Thursday 25 January 2024

Those who will not reason, are bigots, 
those who cannot, are fools, 
and those who dare not, are slaves.

Wednesday 24 January 2024

Tuesday 23 January 2024

Read not to contradict and confute, 
nor to believe and take for granted... 
but to weigh and consider.

Monday 22 January 2024

Sunday 21 January 2024

Tell me and I forget. 
Teach me and I remember. 
Involve me and I learn.

Saturday 20 January 2024


Friday 19 January 2024

When you realise the value of all life, 
you dwell less on what is past 
and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

Thursday 18 January 2024

Wednesday 17 January 2024

The knowledge from an enlightened person 
breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

Tuesday 16 January 2024

Monday 15 January 2024

The world is the great gymnasium 
where we come to make ourselves strong.

Sunday 14 January 2024


Saturday 13 January 2024

Individuality is founded in feeling; 
and the recesses of feeling, 
the darker, blinder strata of character, 
are the only places in the world 
in which we catch real fact in the making, 
and directly perceive how events happen, 
and how work is actually done.

Friday 12 January 2024

Thursday 11 January 2024

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. 
You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

Wednesday 10 January 2024

Tuesday 9 January 2024

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.

Monday 8 January 2024

Sunday 7 January 2024

No sensible decision can be made any longer 
without taking into account 
not only the world as it is, 
but the world as it will be.

Saturday 6 January 2024

Friday 5 January 2024

The moral world 
is as little exempt as 
the physical world 
from the law of ceaseless change, 
of perpetual flux.

Thursday 4 January 2024

Wednesday 3 January 2024

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision 
which is characteristic of extreme youth 
when all the world is new to it.

Tuesday 2 January 2024

Monday 1 January 2024

He wrapped himself in quotations — 
as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Sunday 31 December 2023

Saturday 30 December 2023

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, 
and words that burn.

Friday 29 December 2023

Thursday 28 December 2023

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, 
but not the madness of people.

Wednesday 27 December 2023

Tuesday 26 December 2023

Inspiration is an awakening, 
a quickening of all man's faculties, 
and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

Monday 25 December 2023

Sunday 24 December 2023

Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.

Saturday 23 December 2023

Friday 22 December 2023

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Thursday 21 December 2023


Wednesday 20 December 2023

The barriers are not erected 
which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 
'Thus far and no farther.'

Tuesday 19 December 2023

Monday 18 December 2023

The truth is cruel, 
but it can be loved, 
and it makes free 
those who have loved it.

Sunday 17 December 2023

Saturday 16 December 2023

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Friday 15 December 2023

Thursday 14 December 2023

Time is a great teacher, 
but unfortunately 
it kills all its pupils.

Wednesday 13 December 2023

Tuesday 12 December 2023

Find ecstasy in life; 
the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Monday 11 December 2023