Thursday 31 March 2016


Wednesday 30 March 2016

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth 
by calling imagination to the help of reason.

Tuesday 29 March 2016

Monday 28 March 2016

Do not believe in anything 
simply because you have heard it. 
Do not believe in anything 
simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. 
Do not believe in anything 
simply because it is found written in your religious books. 
Do not believe in anything 
merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. 
Do not believe in traditions 
because they have been handed down for many generations. 
But after observation and analysis, 
when you find that anything agrees with reason 
and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, 
then accept it and live up to it.

Sunday 27 March 2016

Saturday 26 March 2016

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, 
but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Friday 25 March 2016

Thursday 24 March 2016

Good for the body is the work of the body, 
and good for the soul is the work of the soul, 
and good for either is the work of the other.

Wednesday 23 March 2016

Tuesday 22 March 2016

Out of the quarrel with others 
we make rhetoric; 
out of the quarrel with ourselves 
we make poetry.

Monday 21 March 2016

Sunday 20 March 2016

Physics is mathematical 
not because we know so much 
about the physical world, 
but because we know so little; 
it is only its mathematical properties 
that we can discover.

Saturday 19 March 2016

Friday 18 March 2016

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, 
but upon error also.

Thursday 17 March 2016

Wednesday 16 March 2016

Adopt the pace of nature: 
her secret is patience.

Tuesday 15 March 2016

Monday 14 March 2016


Sunday 13 March 2016

Saturday 12 March 2016

Reading without reflecting 
is like 
eating without digesting.

Friday 11 March 2016


Thursday 10 March 2016

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Wednesday 9 March 2016

Tuesday 8 March 2016

I don't paint things. 
I only paint 
the difference 
between things.

Monday 7 March 2016

Sunday 6 March 2016

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, 
and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

Saturday 5 March 2016

Friday 4 March 2016

Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. 
They are hidden, 
and must be wrested from nature 
by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.

Thursday 3 March 2016

Wednesday 2 March 2016

To teach how to live with uncertainty, 
yet without being paralysed by hesitation, 
is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.

Tuesday 1 March 2016