Tag: books
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December 24, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Culture . . . seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light…” — Matthew Arnold BIRTHDAYS: 1564 Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch painter, cartoonist, printmaker, and engraver. 1625…
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December 23, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The Constitution only guarantees you the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” — Benjamin Franklin BIRTHDAYS: 1644 Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco, Spanish organist, composer. A Este Sol Peregrino 1689 Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French Baroque composer. Sonata à 4 in E Minor, Op. 34 No. 3…
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December 22, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” — Aristotle BIRTHDAYS: 1639 Jean Racine, French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille, as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition…
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December 21, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” — Dorothy Parker BIRTHDAYS: 1401 Tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter. 1616 Pietro Andrea Ziani, Italian organist and composer, born in Venice, Republic , and of Venice. Capriccio, and Exultate Gaudete, and Sonata VII and 3 in D 1628 Samuel Friedrich…
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December 20, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.” — Carl Gustav Jung BIRTHDAYS: 1629 Pieter de Hoogh, Dutch Golden Age painter. MISCELLANEOUS: ATTENTION STARGAZERS. Night sky tonight and the weekend: See the winter Milky Way shine in a moonless sky REMINDER: In the future, before locking things down…
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December 19, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” — Socrates BIRTHDAYS: 1036 Su Tung-p’o, Chinese poet, essayist, painter and calligrapher, born in Meishan, Sichuan. 1676 Louis-Nicholas Clerambault, French organist and composer. Caprice sur les…
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December 18, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “By refocusing our space program on Mars for America’s future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it’s time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and…
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December 17, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” — George Orwell BIRTHDAYS: 1706 Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (Institutions de Physique; translation of Newton’s Principia). 1749 Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (Il Matrimonio Segreto), born in Aversa, Kingdom of…
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December 16, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader’s hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.” — George Santayana BIRTHDAYS: 1770 Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer and pianist of the late Classical and early Romantic eras,…
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January 2, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “People think of education as something they can finish.” — Isaac Asimov BIRTHDAYS: 1732 František “Franz” Xaver Brixi, Czech classical composer and kapellmeister, born in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia. Pastores, and Pastorella in C für Orgel. 1777 Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (Frederick II of Prussia equestrian statue), born in Arolsen,…
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