Sunday 31 December 2017

Saturday 30 December 2017

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

Friday 29 December 2017

Thursday 28 December 2017

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, 
and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, 
precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking 
in fresh nourishment.

Wednesday 27 December 2017

Tuesday 26 December 2017

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, 
and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Monday 25 December 2017


Sunday 24 December 2017

Resolve to be thyself: 
and know that he who finds himself, 
loses his misery.

Saturday 23 December 2017

Friday 22 December 2017

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Thursday 21 December 2017

Wednesday 20 December 2017

Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.

Tuesday 19 December 2017

Monday 18 December 2017

I will seize fate by the throat; 
it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

Sunday 17 December 2017

Saturday 16 December 2017

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Friday 15 December 2017

Thursday 14 December 2017

The belief that there is only one truth, 
and that oneself is in possession of it, 
is the root of all evil in the world.

Wednesday 13 December 2017

Tuesday 12 December 2017

The soul should always stand ajar, 
ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Monday 11 December 2017

Sunday 10 December 2017

Gratitude bestows reverence, 
allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, 
those transcendent moments of awe 
that change forever 
how we experience life and the world.

Saturday 9 December 2017

Friday 8 December 2017

The wise man knows how to run his life 
so that contemplation is possible.

Thursday 7 December 2017

Wednesday 6 December 2017

Whoever dedicates his life to searching out particular connections of nature 
will spontaneously be confronted with the question 
how they harmoniously fit into the whole.

Tuesday 5 December 2017

Monday 4 December 2017

Silence is as deep as eternity, 
speech as shallow as time.

Sunday 3 December 2017

Saturday 2 December 2017

Only in men's imagination
does every truth
find an effective and undeniable existence. 
Imagination,
not invention,
is the supreme master of art as of life.

Friday 1 December 2017

Thursday 30 November 2017

Power is no blessing in itself, 
except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Wednesday 29 November 2017

Tuesday 28 November 2017

As you think, 
so shall you become.

Monday 27 November 2017

Sunday 26 November 2017

What most experimenters take for granted 
before they begin their experiments 
is infinitely more interesting 
than any results to which their experiments lead.

Saturday 25 November 2017

Friday 24 November 2017

He alone is free 
who lives with free consent 
under the entire guidance of reason.

Thursday 23 November 2017

Wednesday 22 November 2017

Only thought can resemble. 
It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; 
it becomes what the world offers it.

Tuesday 21 November 2017

Monday 20 November 2017

A mind cannot be independent of culture.

Sunday 19 November 2017

Saturday 18 November 2017

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

Friday 17 November 2017

Thursday 16 November 2017

The facts of science are real enough, 
and so are the techniques that scientists use, 
and so are the technologies based on them. 
But the belief system 
that governs conventional scientific thinking 
is an act of faith.

Wednesday 15 November 2017

Tuesday 14 November 2017

It is not so much for its beauty 
that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, 
as for that subtle something, 
that quality of air that emanation from old trees, 
that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

Monday 13 November 2017

Sunday 12 November 2017

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. 
The more truth we have to work with, 
the richer we become.

Saturday 11 November 2017

Friday 10 November 2017

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view 
are more pleasing than 
those crowded with fruition.

Thursday 9 November 2017


Wednesday 8 November 2017

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Tuesday 7 November 2017

Monday 6 November 2017

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, 
we must educate our masters, 
labour and capital, 
in art.

Sunday 5 November 2017

Saturday 4 November 2017

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

Friday 3 November 2017

Thursday 2 November 2017

To unfold the secret laws and relations 
of those high faculties of thought 
by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge
 of the world and of ourselves 
is attained or matured, 
is an object which does not stand in need of commendation 
to a rational mind.

Wednesday 1 November 2017

Tuesday 31 October 2017

Pity those whom nature abuses; 
never those who abuse nature.

Monday 30 October 2017

Sunday 29 October 2017

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

Saturday 28 October 2017

Friday 27 October 2017

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Thursday 26 October 2017

Wednesday 25 October 2017

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Tuesday 24 October 2017

Monday 23 October 2017

Think for yourself and question authority.

Sunday 22 October 2017

Saturday 21 October 2017

The self is not something ready-made, 
but something in continuous formation 
through choice of action.

Friday 20 October 2017

Thursday 19 October 2017

Wherever anything lives, 
there is, 
open somewhere, 
a register in which time is being inscribed.

Wednesday 18 October 2017

Tuesday 17 October 2017

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, 
and his punishment is that he sees the dawn 
before the rest of the world.

Monday 16 October 2017

Sunday 15 October 2017

To be nobody but yourself 
in a world which is doing its best, 
night and day, 
to make you everybody else 
means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; 
and never stop fighting.

Saturday 14 October 2017

Friday 13 October 2017

The joy of life consists in 
the exercise of one's energies, 
continual growth, 
constant change, 
the enjoyment of every new experience.

Thursday 12 October 2017

Wednesday 11 October 2017

I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.

Tuesday 10 October 2017

Monday 9 October 2017

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Sunday 8 October 2017

Saturday 7 October 2017

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, 
but the opposite of one profound truth 
may very well be 
another profound truth.

Friday 6 October 2017

Thursday 5 October 2017

The world does not speak. 
Only we do.

Wednesday 4 October 2017

Tuesday 3 October 2017

There is always one moment in childhood 
when the door opens 
and lets the future in.

Monday 2 October 2017

Sunday 1 October 2017

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Saturday 30 September 2017

Friday 29 September 2017

When you read and understand a poem, 
comprehending its rich and formal meanings, 
then you master chaos a little.

Thursday 28 September 2017

Wednesday 27 September 2017

As the ego cogito
subjectivity is the consciousness 
that represents something, 
relates this representation back to itself, 
and so gathers with itself.

Tuesday 26 September 2017

Monday 25 September 2017

We are drowning in information, 
while starving for wisdom.

Sunday 24 September 2017