Tag: philosophy
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January 1, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.” — Edmund Burke BIRTHDAYS: 1449 Lorenzo de’ Medici, talian statesman, the de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic, and the most powerful patron of Renaissance culture in Italy. 1628 Christoph Bernhard, German Baroque composer…
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December 28, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.” — Mortimer J. Adler BIRTHDAYS: 1651 Johann Krieger, German organist and composer, born in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire. Es ist mir von Natur gegeben, and Fantasie in d, and Vater unser im Himmelreich, and…
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December 25, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” — Isaac Newton BIRTHDAYS: 1583 Orlando Gibbons, English composer. Pavana, and L’Achéron, and This is the record of John, and The Silver Swan 1601 Jose Ximenez, Spanish composer. Batalla de sexto tono 1628 Noel Coypel, French painter.…
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December 24, 2024
“It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.” — Alfred Adler BIRTHDAYS: 1564 Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch painter, cartoonist, printmaker, and engraver. 1679 Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian composer, born in Trani, Kingdom of Naples. Concerto in la minore per flauto, 2vl, vla, e b.c 1818 James Prescott Joule, English physicist.…
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December 18, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.” — Arthur C. Clarke BIRTHDAYS: 1569 Jakob Hassler, German composer,…
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December 15, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “There’s nothing more frustrating than seeing cynics sit there and say, ‘Well, nobody can make any more money because Microsoft and Intel own everything.’ Is the software industry mature, or is it embryonic? I would say it’s embryonic. There will be a hundred more Microsofts, not just one.” — Michael J.…
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December 11, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who…
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December 8, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The great danger to the consumer is the monopoly— whether private or governmental. His most effective protection is free competition at home and free trade throughout the world. The consumer is protected from being exploited by one seller by the existence of another seller from whom he can buy and who…
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