Quote of the Evening
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. -Arthur Schopenhauer
Thursday, October 22, 2009
The mail and the press are the nerves of the body politic. By them the slightest impression made on the most remote parts is communicated to the whole system. -John C. Calhoun
Monday, October 19, 2009
Beware of the person who can’t be bothered by details. -William Feather
Thursday, October 15, 2009
The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars. -Carl Sagan
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought. -Henri Poincaré
Friday, October 2, 2009
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. -Immanuel Kant
Thursday, September 24, 2009
The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. -Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time. -Aristotle
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Thinking must never submit itself, neither to a dogma, nor to a party, nor to a passion, nor to an interest, nor to a preconceived idea, nor to whatever it may be, if not to facts themselves, because, for it, to submit would be to cease to be. -Henri Poincaré
Thursday, November 12, 2009
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