A Senser Sensing
perceiving thinking desiring feeling
Saturday 27 April 2024
If I could find anything blacker than black,
I'd use it.
Friday 26 April 2024
Thursday 25 April 2024
This above all;
to thine own self be true.
Wednesday 24 April 2024
Tuesday 23 April 2024
I try to avoid looking forward or backward,
and try to keep looking upward.
Monday 22 April 2024
Sunday 21 April 2024
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul
but executed with clinical coolness.
Saturday 20 April 2024
I am, indeed, a king,
because I know how to rule myself.
Friday 19 April 2024
Thursday 18 April 2024
Sincerity is moral truth.
Wednesday 17 April 2024
Tuesday 16 April 2024
The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better
when we were defenceless against tigers
than they are today
when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
Monday 15 April 2024
Sunday 14 April 2024
I can't go on.
I'll go on.
Saturday 13 April 2024
Friday 12 April 2024
The care of human life and happiness,
and not their destruction,
is the first and only object of good government.
Thursday 11 April 2024
Wednesday 10 April 2024
Music fathoms the sky.
Tuesday 9 April 2024
Monday 8 April 2024
For I have learned to look on nature,
not as in the hour of thoughtless youth,
but hearing oftentimes
the still, sad music of humanity.
Sunday 7 April 2024
Saturday 6 April 2024
A wise man should so write
(though in words understood by all men)
that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Friday 5 April 2024
Thursday 4 April 2024
I was cut off from the world.
There was no one to confuse or torment me,
and I was forced to become original.
Wednesday 3 April 2024
Tuesday 2 April 2024
In order to improve the mind,
we ought less to learn,
than to contemplate.
Monday 1 April 2024
Sunday 31 March 2024
Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books,
for a liar who will deceive with his tongue
will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
Saturday 30 March 2024
Friday 29 March 2024
Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science
have been given their initial expression
in attractively modest terms,
with no fanfare.
Thursday 28 March 2024
Wednesday 27 March 2024
Laughter does not please the mighty.
Tuesday 26 March 2024
Monday 25 March 2024
Most of the evil of the world comes about
not out of evil motives,
but somebody saying
'get with the program,
be a team player'.
Sunday 24 March 2024
Saturday 23 March 2024
Education is what survives
when what has been learned
has been forgotten.
Friday 22 March 2024
Thursday 21 March 2024
A forest bird never wants a cage.
Wednesday 20 March 2024
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
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