Saturday 30 April 2016

Friday 29 April 2016

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself 
and you are the easiest person to fool.

Thursday 28 April 2016

Wednesday 27 April 2016

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, 
the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, 
and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Tuesday 26 April 2016

Monday 25 April 2016

To care less for the truth 
than for what people think 
is a coward's part.

Sunday 24 April 2016

Saturday 23 April 2016

Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, 
with life and the material environment as partners. 
From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

Friday 22 April 2016

Thursday 21 April 2016

I heard the old, old, men say 
'all that's beautiful drifts away, 
like the waters.'

Wednesday 20 April 2016

Tuesday 19 April 2016

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. 
What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Monday 18 April 2016

Sunday 17 April 2016

Everything becomes a little different 
as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Saturday 16 April 2016

Friday 15 April 2016

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. 
We cannot cure the world of sorrows, 
but we can choose to live in joy.

Thursday 14 April 2016

Wednesday 13 April 2016

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, 
not by faith, 
but by verification.

Tuesday 12 April 2016

Monday 11 April 2016

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Sunday 10 April 2016

Saturday 9 April 2016

It is too difficult to think nobly 
when one thinks only of earning a living.

Friday 8 April 2016

Thursday 7 April 2016

If we were all given 
by magic 
the power to read each other's thoughts, 
I suppose the first effect would be 
to dissolve all friendships.

Wednesday 6 April 2016

Tuesday 5 April 2016

Pleasure is spread through the earth
In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.

Monday 4 April 2016

Sunday 3 April 2016

In science 
the important thing 
is to modify and change one's ideas 
as science advances.

Saturday 2 April 2016

Friday 1 April 2016

Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. 
New facts burst old rules; 
then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together 
into a reconciling law.