Tag: philosophy
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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 6, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Never ruin an apology with an excuse.” — Benjamin Franklin BIRTHDAYS: 1745 Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor and pioneer balloonist (Montgolfière-style hot air balloon) 1822 Heinrich Schliemann, German businessman and an influential amateur archaeologist. 1838 Max Bruch, German composer. Romanze Op. 85 1832 Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor 1872 Alexander Scriabin,…
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January 4, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.” — Milton Friedman BIRTHDAYS: 1710 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi [Draghi], Italian Baroque organist, composerborn in Jesi, Papal States. Tre giorni son che Nina, and Stabat Mater Dolorosa 1717 Antonio Maria Mazzoni,…
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January 3, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;Refusing to set aside trivial preferences.Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;Attempting to compel others to believe and…
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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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