Friday 31 May 2013


Thursday 30 May 2013

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, 
but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Wednesday 29 May 2013


Tuesday 28 May 2013

Beware of the man 
who works hard to learn something, 
learns it, 
and finds himself 
no wiser than before.

Monday 27 May 2013


Sunday 26 May 2013

You know those nights, 
when you're sleeping, 
and it's totally dark, 
and absolutely silent, 
and you don't dream, 
and there's only blackness, 
and this is the reason, 
it's because on those nights 
you've gone away. 
On those nights, 
you're in someone else's dream, 
you're busy in someone else's dream.

Saturday 25 May 2013


Friday 24 May 2013

There will be well-testable theories, 
hardly testable theories, 
and non-testable theories. 
Those which are non-testable 
are of no interest to empirical scientists. 
They may be described as metaphysical.

Thursday 23 May 2013


Wednesday 22 May 2013

The only way to deal 
with an unfree world 
is to become so absolutely free 
that your very existence 
is an act of rebellion.

Tuesday 21 May 2013


Monday 20 May 2013


Sunday 19 May 2013

There are also two kinds of truths: 
truth of reasoning and truths of fact. 
Truths of reasoning are necessary 
and their opposite is impossible; 
those of fact are contingent 
and their opposite is possible.

Saturday 18 May 2013


Friday 17 May 2013

The highest activity a human being can attain 
is learning for understanding, 
because to understand is to be free.

Thursday 16 May 2013


Wednesday 15 May 2013

Desultory reading is delightful, 
but to be beneficial, 
our reading must be carefully directed.

Tuesday 14 May 2013


Monday 13 May 2013

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, 
the whole aim and end of human existence.

Sunday 12 May 2013


Saturday 11 May 2013

The problems that exist in the world today 
cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

Friday 10 May 2013


Thursday 9 May 2013

Whereas when any of the great mythic imageries 
comes to be read as poetry, as art, as a vehicle 
not of empirical information 
but of experience
— in other words: not as a newspaper —
we find a message of accord,
which, in brief, is that of the living god,
who is not apart, 
but within all
and of no definition.

Wednesday 8 May 2013


Tuesday 7 May 2013

It is one of the great lessons of our study
that for the vulgar, ill- or uninstructed mind,
myths tend to become history
and there ensues a type of attachment 
to the mere accidents of the local forms
that, on the one hand, 
binds so-called believers into contending groups
and, on the other hand,
deprives them all of the substance of the message
each believes itself alone to have received.
All orthodoxies show this tendency in great or slight degree
and they are consequently mutually opposed.

Monday 6 May 2013


Sunday 5 May 2013

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Saturday 4 May 2013


Friday 3 May 2013

The best part of beauty
is that which no picture can express.

Thursday 2 May 2013


Wednesday 1 May 2013

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; 
the mechanic that would perfect his work 
must first sharpen his tools.