Thursday, 21 November 2024

It is lamentable that to be a good patriot 
one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Wednesday, 20 November 2024

Tuesday, 19 November 2024

In play, 
a child is always above his average age, 
above his daily behaviour; 
in play, 
it is as though he were 
a head taller than himself.

Monday, 18 November 2024

Sunday, 17 November 2024

Morality covers our conduct, 
not what goes on inside our heads.

Saturday, 16 November 2024

Friday, 15 November 2024

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Thursday, 14 November 2024

Wednesday, 13 November 2024

Dreams are not without meaning 
wherever they may come from:
from fantasy, 
from the elements, 
or from other inspiration.

Tuesday, 12 November 2024


Monday, 11 November 2024

I have found the missing link 
between the higher ape 
and civilised man; 
it is we.

Sunday, 10 November 2024

Saturday, 9 November 2024

Be less curious about people 
and more curious about ideas.

Friday, 8 November 2024

Thursday, 7 November 2024

Wednesday, 6 November 2024

Tuesday, 5 November 2024

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

Monday, 4 November 2024

Sunday, 3 November 2024

The hours I spend with you 
I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, 
a dim twilight, 
and a fountain singing to it. 
You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. 
Other men it is said have seen angels, 
but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

Saturday, 2 November 2024

Friday, 1 November 2024

Find a place inside where there's joy, 
and the joy will burn out the pain.

Thursday, 31 October 2024

Wednesday, 30 October 2024

It is the chiefest point of happiness 
that a man is willing to be what he is.

Tuesday, 29 October 2024

Monday, 28 October 2024

Though lovers be lost, 
love shall not.

Sunday, 27 October 2024

Saturday, 26 October 2024

When I die, 
it will be a shipwreck, 
and as when a huge ship sinks, 
many people 
all around 
will be sucked down with it.

Friday, 25 October 2024

Tuesday, 22 October 2024

Books that distribute things... 
with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, 
put us on our feet again.

Monday, 21 October 2024

Sunday, 20 October 2024

Religion is to mysticism what popularisation is to science.

Saturday, 19 October 2024

Friday, 18 October 2024

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

Thursday, 17 October 2024

Wednesday, 16 October 2024

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Tuesday, 15 October 2024

Monday, 14 October 2024

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Sunday, 13 October 2024

Saturday, 12 October 2024

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Friday, 11 October 2024

Thursday, 10 October 2024

No, no, you're not thinking; 
you're just being logical.

Wednesday, 9 October 2024

Tuesday, 8 October 2024

I prefer drawing to talking. 
Drawing is faster, 
and leaves less room for lies.

Monday, 7 October 2024

Sunday, 6 October 2024

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Saturday, 5 October 2024

Friday, 4 October 2024

It is the unknown that excites the ardour of scholars, 
who, in the known alone, 
would shrivel up with boredom.

Thursday, 3 October 2024

Wednesday, 2 October 2024

Our greatest foes, 
and whom we must chiefly combat, 
are within.

Tuesday, 1 October 2024

Monday, 30 September 2024

You must pass your days in song. 
Let your whole life be a song.

Sunday, 29 September 2024

Saturday, 28 September 2024

We shall not cease from exploration, 
and the end of all our exploring 
will be to arrive where we started 
and know the place for the first time.

Friday, 27 September 2024

Thursday, 26 September 2024

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

Wednesday, 25 September 2024

Tuesday, 24 September 2024

Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.

Monday, 23 September 2024

Sunday, 22 September 2024

I wish I were supernaturally strong 
so I could put right everything that is wrong.

Saturday, 21 September 2024

Friday, 20 September 2024

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, 
and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

Thursday, 19 September 2024

Wednesday, 18 September 2024

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment 
and even depression, 
and then by renewed enthusiasm.

Tuesday, 17 September 2024

Monday, 16 September 2024

If we have not peace within ourselves, 
it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

Sunday, 15 September 2024

Saturday, 14 September 2024

Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, 
and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand 
than space is with stars.

Friday, 13 September 2024

Thursday, 12 September 2024

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; 
and different beliefs are distinguished by 
the different modes of action to which they give rise.

Wednesday, 11 September 2024

Tuesday, 10 September 2024

The public will believe anything, 
so long as it is not founded on truth.

Monday, 9 September 2024

Sunday, 8 September 2024

To live only for some future goal is shallow. 
It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, 
not the top.

Saturday, 7 September 2024

Friday, 6 September 2024

Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty 
that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; 
that it pleases if we also do not possess it 
and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it.

Thursday, 5 September 2024

Wednesday, 4 September 2024

True creativity often starts where language ends.

Tuesday, 3 September 2024

Monday, 2 September 2024

Invention, 
it must be humbly admitted, 
does not consist in creating out of void, 
but out of chaos.

Sunday, 1 September 2024

Saturday, 31 August 2024

There is frequently more to be learned 
from the unexpected questions of a child 
than the discourses of men.

Friday, 30 August 2024

Thursday, 29 August 2024

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Wednesday, 28 August 2024

Tuesday, 27 August 2024

There is much to be said for failure. 
It is much more interesting than success.

Monday, 26 August 2024

Sunday, 25 August 2024

I have fun with ideas; 
I play with them.

Saturday, 24 August 2024

Friday, 23 August 2024

Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, 
and the one which best lends itself 
to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

Thursday, 22 August 2024

Wednesday, 21 August 2024

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.

Tuesday, 20 August 2024

Monday, 19 August 2024

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humour and truth.

Sunday, 18 August 2024

Saturday, 17 August 2024

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

Friday, 16 August 2024