Tag: history
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February 21, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations BIRTHDAYS: 1556 Sethus Calvisius, German composer, born in Gorsleben, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire. Freut Euch und jubiliert 1815 Ernest Meissonier, French painter and sculptor. 1860 Goscombe John, Welsh…
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February 20, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Exercise of a right by one person does not diminish those held by another.” — Walter Williams BIRTHDAYS: 1633 Jan de Baen, Dutch portrait painter and etcher, born in Haarlem, Dutch Republic. 1705 Nicolas Chédeville, French musette player and maker, and composer. Sonata in G minor, from ‘Il Pastor Fido Op.13’…
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February 19, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “For I am not so enamored of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them. I am aware that a philosopher’s ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavor to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted…
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February 18, 2025
THOUGHT OF 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…
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February 17, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Not every problem needs to be overcome, just the ones stopping you from getting where you want to be.” — Ann Hill BIRTHDAYS: 1653 Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer and violinist (Concerti Grossi), born in Fusignano, Duchy of Modena and Reggio. Concerto in D Major Op. 6 No. 4, La Folia, Opus…
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February 16, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in…
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February 15, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.” — Alfred North Whitehead BIRTHDAYS: 1557 Alfonso Fontanelli, Italian composer (Ferrara school), born in Reggio nell’Emilia, Duchy of Modena and Reggio. Io parto e nel partire 1564 Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer, physicist…
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February 14, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.” — Frederick Douglass BIRTHDAYS: 1404 Leon Battista Alberti, Italian Renaissance humanist author (Dinner Pieces), architect (Tempio Malatestiano; Palazzo Rucellai; Santa Maria Novella), sculptor and cryptographer considered a founder of Western cryptography, born in Genoa, Republic of Genoa. 1513 Domenico Maria Ferrabosco, Italian…
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February 13, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?” — Marcus Tullius Cicero BIRTHDAYS: 1660 Johann Sigismund Kusser, Hungarian German composer,…
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February 12, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If every one of those good words – liberty, equality, fraternity, democracy, human rights – has been called “bourgeois”, what on earth does that leave for us?” — Fang Lizhi BIRTHDAYS: 1567 Thomas Campion, English composer, poet and physician. Fain would I wed 1809 Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United…
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