Category: Uncategorized
-
November 6, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “There’s only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.” — Albert Jay Nock BIRTHDAYS: 1659 Theodor Schwartzkopff, German composer, born in the Free Imperial City of Ulm, Holy Roman Empire. Allemande and Chaconne 1753 Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian sculptor. 1771 Alois Senefelder, German actor and inventor…
-
November 5, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can’t control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations BIRTHDAYS: 1666 Attilio Ariosti, Italian baroque…
-
November 4, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Dare to think for yourself.” — Voltaire BIRTHDAYS: 1575 Guido Reni, Italian Baroque painter, born in Bologna, Papal States. 1590 Gerard van Honthorst, Dutch Golden Age painter who became known for his depiction of artificially lit scenes, eventually receiving the Italian nickname Gherardo delle Notti (“Gerard of the Nights”). 1779 Jan…
-
November 3, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken.…
-
November 2, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It’s not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the ‘right’ to education, the ‘right’ to health care, the ‘right’ to food and housing. That’s not freedom, that’s dependency. Those aren’t rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle.” — Alexis de Tocqueville BIRTHDAYS:…
-
November 1, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” — Milton Friedman BIRTHDAYS: 1500 Benvenuto Cellini, Italian sculptor, goldsmith and author (Perseus). 1757 Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor, born in Possagno, Republic of Venice. 1849 William Merritt Chase, American impressionist painter, and educator…
-
October 31, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.” — Friedrich August von Hayek BIRTHDAYS: 1291 Philippe de…
-
October 30, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence; and this will be that of…
-
October 29, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Freedom is the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property.” — Andrew J. Galambos BIRTHDAYS: 1656 Edmond Halley, English astronomer, mathematician and physicist. Halley encouraged and helped fund the publication of Isaac Newton’s influential Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687). From observations Halley made in…
-
October 28, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.” — Erasmus BIRTHDAYS: 1466 Erasmus, Dutch humanist, Christian theologian, and philosopher. 1751 Dmitry Stepanovich Bortniansky, Russian-Ukrainian harpsichordist and composer (Tantum Ergo), born in Glukhov, Russian Empire. Cherubic Hymn No. 7 1754…
Tony's Garden 