Thought of the Day…

“People should not make a virtue out of their sensitivity. They may experience it and preserve it as it was experienced. But they should not adorn themselves with it. Sensitivity will make an addict out of anyone who displays its medals on his chest. He will require more and more objects to enable him to demonstrate his sensitivity, and if he runs out of them, he will simply make things up – and his sensitivity will then reveal itself for what it is: precious, brittle, and rotted through and through.”

― Elias Canetti

1654 Agostino Steffani, Italian bishop, polymath, diplomat and composer. Stabat Mater, Ogni core può sperar

1657 Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, German composer. Halleluja

1683 Pieter Langendijk, Dutch painter, etcher and playwright.

1870 Maxfield Parrish, American painter and illustrator.

1902 Eric Hoffer, American moral and social philosopher.

1905 Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-British author.

1920 Rosalind Franklin, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA.

MISCELLANY:

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

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