Thursday, 3 April 2025

Wednesday, 2 April 2025

I am never afraid of what I know.

Tuesday, 1 April 2025

Monday, 31 March 2025

Painting (like poetry) chooses 
from universals 
what is most apposite. 
It brings together, 
in a single imaginary being, 
circumstances and characteristics 
which occur in nature
 in many different persons.

Sunday, 30 March 2025

Saturday, 29 March 2025

The big question is 
whether you are going to be able to say 
a hearty yes 
to your adventure.

Friday, 28 March 2025

Thursday, 27 March 2025

What happens when good people 
are put into an evil place? 
Do they triumph 
or does the situation dominate 
their past history and morality?

Wednesday, 26 March 2025

Tuesday, 25 March 2025

Who are you going to believe, 
me or your own eyes?

Monday, 24 March 2025

Sunday, 23 March 2025

I determined never to stop 
until I had come to the end 
and achieved my purpose.

Saturday, 22 March 2025

Friday, 21 March 2025

The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.

Thursday, 20 March 2025

Wednesday, 19 March 2025

The basic fault lines today are 
not between people with different beliefs 
but between people who hold these beliefs 
with an element of uncertainty 
and people who hold these beliefs 
with a pretence of certitude.

Tuesday, 18 March 2025

Monday, 17 March 2025

Every man, 
when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, 
and to feel his own importance, 
will consider himself as fully equal 
to any other person whatever.

Sunday, 16 March 2025

Saturday, 15 March 2025

The eye by long use comes to see 
even in the darkest cavern: 
and there is no subject so obscure 
but we may discern some glimpse of truth 
by long poring on it.

Friday, 14 March 2025

Thursday, 13 March 2025

It seems to me that 
at this time 
we need education in the obvious 

Wednesday, 12 March 2025

Tuesday, 11 March 2025

After all, the best part of a holiday 
is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, 
as to see all the other fellows busy working.

Monday, 10 March 2025

Sunday, 9 March 2025

Life on earth is such a good story 
you cannot afford to miss the beginning... 
Beneath our superficial differences 
we are all of us 
walking communities of bacteria. 
The world shimmers, 
a pointillist landscape 
made of tiny living beings.

Saturday, 8 March 2025

Friday, 7 March 2025

Exhilaration is that feeling you get 
just after a great idea hits you, 
and just before you realise what's wrong with it.

Thursday, 6 March 2025

Wednesday, 5 March 2025

Today the world changes so quickly 
that in growing up 
we take leave 
not just of youth 
but of the world we were young in.

Tuesday, 4 March 2025

Monday, 3 March 2025

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

Sunday, 2 March 2025

Saturday, 1 March 2025

The pain passes, 
but the beauty remains.

Friday, 28 February 2025

Thursday, 27 February 2025

I didn't think; 
I experimented.

Wednesday, 26 February 2025

Tuesday, 25 February 2025

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; 
it stops to think. 
Music is immediate, 
it goes on to become.

Monday, 24 February 2025

Sunday, 23 February 2025

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. 
There is always more mystery.

Saturday, 22 February 2025

Friday, 21 February 2025

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps 
under the illusion that I am exploring, 
doomed to try and learn 
what I should simply recognise, 
learning a mere fraction 
of what I have forgotten.

Thursday, 20 February 2025

Wednesday, 19 February 2025

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Tuesday, 18 February 2025

Monday, 17 February 2025

When I do good 
I feel good, 
when I do bad 
I feel bad, 
and that's my religion.

Sunday, 16 February 2025

Saturday, 15 February 2025

I love fools' experiments. 
I am always making them.

Friday, 14 February 2025

Thursday, 13 February 2025

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant 
may see farther than a giant himself.

Wednesday, 12 February 2025

Tuesday, 11 February 2025

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, 
and making what is best out of them.

Monday, 10 February 2025

Sunday, 9 February 2025

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, 
never completely forget about it.

Saturday, 8 February 2025

Friday, 7 February 2025

Any feeling that I was enriching my mind 
from those surrounding me 
was unfortunately rare with me.

Thursday, 6 February 2025

Wednesday, 5 February 2025

If we go on explaining 
we shall cease to understand one another.

Tuesday, 4 February 2025

Monday, 3 February 2025

No one feels another's grief, 
no one understands another's joy. 
People imagine they can reach one another. 
In reality they only pass each other by.

Sunday, 2 February 2025

Saturday, 1 February 2025

How sad it is 
that these great gentlemen should believe what anyone tells them 
and do not choose to judge for themselves! 
But it is always so.

Friday, 31 January 2025

Thursday, 30 January 2025

Take care of the sense 
and the sounds will take care of themselves.

Wednesday, 29 January 2025

Tuesday, 28 January 2025

The more one pleases everybody, 
the less one pleases profoundly.

Monday, 27 January 2025

Sunday, 26 January 2025

There are no lines in nature, 
only areas of colour, 
one against another.

Saturday, 25 January 2025

Friday, 24 January 2025

In criticism I will be bold, 
and as sternly, 
absolutely just 
with friend and foe. 
From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

Thursday, 23 January 2025

Wednesday, 22 January 2025

To understand a science, 
it is necessary to know its history.

Tuesday, 21 January 2025

Monday, 20 January 2025

For all life is a dream, 
and dreams themselves 
are only dreams.

Sunday, 19 January 2025

Saturday, 18 January 2025

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

Friday, 17 January 2025

Thursday, 16 January 2025

The important thing is this: 
to be able, 
at any moment, 
to sacrifice what we are 
for what we could become.

Wednesday, 15 January 2025

Tuesday, 14 January 2025

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? 
Because thinking determines life.

Monday, 13 January 2025

Sunday, 12 January 2025

The good life is a process, 
not a state of being. 
It is a direction 
not a destination.

Saturday, 11 January 2025

Friday, 10 January 2025

The wise does at once 
what the fool does at last.

Thursday, 9 January 2025

Wednesday, 8 January 2025

The soul is individualised spirit.

Tuesday, 7 January 2025

Monday, 6 January 2025

Courage is found in unlikely places.

Sunday, 5 January 2025

Saturday, 4 January 2025

There's no sense in being precise 
when you don't even know what you're talking about.

Friday, 3 January 2025

Thursday, 2 January 2025

We used to think 
that if we knew one, 
we knew two, 
because one and one are two. 
We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

Wednesday, 1 January 2025

Tuesday, 31 December 2024

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Monday, 30 December 2024

Sunday, 29 December 2024

Youth smiles without any reason. 
It is one of its chiefest charms.

Saturday, 28 December 2024

Friday, 27 December 2024

Tact is the art of making a point 
without making an enemy.

Thursday, 26 December 2024