Saturday 31 December 2016

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

Friday 30 December 2016

Thursday 29 December 2016

Through the Thou a person becomes I.

Wednesday 28 December 2016

Tuesday 27 December 2016

If we are always arriving and departing, 
it is also true that we are eternally anchored. 
One's destination is never a place 
but rather a new way of looking at things.

Monday 26 December 2016

Sunday 25 December 2016

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

Saturday 24 December 2016

Friday 23 December 2016

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, 
which stands continually open to our gaze. 
But the book cannot be understood 
unless one first learns to comprehend the language 
and read the letters in which it is composed.

Thursday 22 December 2016

Wednesday 21 December 2016

The ability to perceive or think differently 
is more important than the knowledge gained.

Tuesday 20 December 2016

Monday 19 December 2016

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Sunday 18 December 2016

Saturday 17 December 2016

The limits of the possible 
can only be defined 
by going beyond them 
into the impossible.

Friday 16 December 2016

Thursday 15 December 2016

Society attacks early, 
when the individual is helpless.

Wednesday 14 December 2016

Tuesday 13 December 2016

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye…
it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

Monday 12 December 2016

Sunday 11 December 2016

A beast does not know that he is a beast, 
and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, 
the less he knows it.

Saturday 10 December 2016

Friday 9 December 2016

There are things known 
and things unknown 
and in between 
are the doors.

Thursday 8 December 2016

Wednesday 7 December 2016

The only journey is the one within.

Tuesday 6 December 2016


Monday 5 December 2016

All animals, 
except man, 
know that the principal business of life 
is to enjoy it.

Sunday 4 December 2016

Saturday 3 December 2016

Death not merely ends life, 
it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, 
snatched from the hazardous flux 
to which all things human are subject.

Friday 2 December 2016

Thursday 1 December 2016

We have enough religion to make us hate, 
but not enough to make us love one another.

Wednesday 30 November 2016


Tuesday 29 November 2016

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers 
as ask the right questions.

Monday 28 November 2016

Sunday 27 November 2016

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

Saturday 26 November 2016

Friday 25 November 2016

Life and death are one thread, 
the same line viewed from different sides.

Thursday 24 November 2016

Wednesday 23 November 2016

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Tuesday 22 November 2016

Monday 21 November 2016

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

Sunday 20 November 2016

Saturday 19 November 2016

Intelligence and courtesy 
not always are combined; 
Often in a wooden house 
a golden room we find.

Friday 18 November 2016

Thursday 17 November 2016

A noble man compares and estimates himself 
by an idea which is higher than himself; 
and a mean man, 
by one lower than himself. 

The one produces aspiration; 
the other ambition, 
which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Wednesday 16 November 2016

Tuesday 15 November 2016

Music is the emotional life of most people.

Monday 14 November 2016

Sunday 13 November 2016

Saturday 12 November 2016

Friday 11 November 2016

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Thursday 10 November 2016

Wednesday 9 November 2016

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Tuesday 8 November 2016

Monday 7 November 2016

Layer by layer 
art strips life bare.

Sunday 6 November 2016

Saturday 5 November 2016

We're born alone, 
we live alone, 
we die alone. 
Only through our love and friendship 
can we create the illusion 
for the moment 
that we're not alone.

Friday 4 November 2016

Thursday 3 November 2016

All meanings, 
we know, 
depend on the key of interpretation.

Wednesday 2 November 2016

Tuesday 1 November 2016

The excellency of every art is its intensity, 
capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Monday 31 October 2016

Sunday 30 October 2016

I have found you an argument; 
I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

Saturday 29 October 2016

Friday 28 October 2016

The most creative people 
have this childlike facility 
to play.

Thursday 27 October 2016


Wednesday 26 October 2016

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

Tuesday 25 October 2016

Monday 24 October 2016

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Sunday 23 October 2016

Saturday 22 October 2016

The unread story is not a story; 
it is little black marks on wood pulp. 
The reader, reading it, makes it live: 
a live thing, a story.

Friday 21 October 2016

Thursday 20 October 2016

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; 
the former begets knowledge, 
the latter ignorance.

Wednesday 19 October 2016

Tuesday 18 October 2016

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

Monday 17 October 2016

Sunday 16 October 2016

War remains the decisive human failure.

Saturday 15 October 2016

Friday 14 October 2016

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Thursday 13 October 2016

Wednesday 12 October 2016

Life is a song — sing it. 
Life is a game — play it. 
Life is a challenge — meet it. 
Life is a dream — realise it. 
Life is a sacrifice — offer it. 
Life is love — enjoy it.

Tuesday 11 October 2016

Monday 10 October 2016

Re-examine all that you have been told... 
dismiss that which insults your soul.

Sunday 9 October 2016

Saturday 8 October 2016

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, 
but the best weapon of a democracy should be 
the weapon of openness.

Friday 7 October 2016

Thursday 6 October 2016

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

Wednesday 5 October 2016

Tuesday 4 October 2016

The unfed mind devours itself.

Monday 3 October 2016

Sunday 2 October 2016

Some people will never learn anything, 
for this reason, 
because they understand everything too soon.

Saturday 1 October 2016

Friday 30 September 2016

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

Thursday 29 September 2016

Wednesday 28 September 2016

An error is the more dangerous 
in proportion to
the degree of truth which it contains.

Tuesday 27 September 2016

Monday 26 September 2016

In this electronic age 
we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, 
moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

Sunday 25 September 2016

Saturday 24 September 2016

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil 
is for good men to do nothing.

Friday 23 September 2016