Tony's Garden

Thought of the Day… “True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.” ― Karl R. Popper 1609 Judith Leyster, Dutch painter. 1866 Beatrix Potter, English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist. 1901 Sándor Vándor, Hungarian Jewish composer. Onarckep. 1902 Karl Popper, Philosopher and Academic. 1907 Earl Tupper, American-born Costa…

Thought of the Day… “Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.” ― Carl Jung 1452 Ludovico Sforza, patron of Leonardo da Vinci. 1502 Francesco Corteccia, Italian composer. Guardan’almo pastore 1609…

Thought of the Day… “Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.” ― Eric Hoffer 1782 John Field, Irish pianist and composer. Nocturne in B-flat Major, H. 37, and Nocturne No. 10 in E minor 1791 Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer. Rondo e-moll für Flöte und Klavier, and Cantate to Joseph Haydn’s 73rd birthday…

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…

Thought of the Day… “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” ― Milan Kundera 1783 Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan military and political leader who led what are currently the countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama and Bolivia to independence from the Spanish Empire. 1802 Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and…

Thought of the Day… “We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.” ― John Galsworthy 1735 Johannes Herbst, German composer. Sie flochten ihm eine Dornenkrone 1777 Philipp Otto Runge, German artist, a draftsman, painter, and color theorist. 1866…

Thought of the Day… “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” ― Milan Kundera 1597 Virgilio Mazzocchi, Italian composer. Surge Amica mea. 1651 Ferdinand Tobias Richter, Austrian composer. Toccata und Versette im 1° Ton. 1849 Emma Lazarus, American author of poetry, prose, and translations. 1882 Edward Hopper, American realist painter…

Thought of the Day… “Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.” ― Ayaan Hirsi Ali 1865 Robert Kahn, German composer. “Nun stehen die Rosen” MISCELLANY: I’M SO OLD I CAN REMEMBER WHEN THEY TOLD US, ‘MOVE ALONG, NOTHING TO SEE HERE’. US halts funding access to Wuhan lab at heart of COVID-19 origins debate FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great…

Thought of the Day… “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” ― Aristotle 1304 Petrarch, scholar and poet of early Renaissance Italy. 1600 Simon Ives, English composer and organist. Almaine, and Now We Are Met 1659 Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter. 1822 Gregor Mendel, German-Czech…

“Where words leave off, music begins.” ― Heinrich Heine 1670 Richard Leveridge, English bass singer and composer. Black and gloomy as the grave. 1782 Jonathan Blewitt, English organist and composer. I love thee still 1789 John Martin, English painter and engraver. 1834 Edgar Degas, French Impressionist artist. 1893 Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet, playwright, artist, and…