Tag: piano
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June 20, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel.” — Ambrose Bierce BIRTHDAYS: 1717 Jacques Saly, French sculptor. 1819 Jacques Offenbach, German-born French composer, cellist, and impresario who pioneered the operetta genre with nearly 100 satirical stage works that critiqued bourgeois society and…
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June 19, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.” — Blaise Pascal BIRTHDAYS: 1623 Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, scientist, inventor, writer/philosopher; known for Pascal’s Law, contributions to probability, fluids, and early mechanical calculator. 1783 Thomas Sully, American portrait…
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June 18, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.” — C. S. Lewis BIRTHDAYS: 1511 Bartolommeo Ammanati, Italian sculptor and architect. 1677 Antonio Maria…
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June 17, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “You don’t have to buy from anyone. You don’t have to work at any particular job. You don’t have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.” — Harry Browne BIRTHDAYS: 1725 Joseph Anton Bauer, Czech harpsichordist and composer. Sonata sesta in D major 1818 Charles Gounod, French composer (Faust).…
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June 16, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.” — Adam Smith BIRTHDAYS: 1723 Adam Smith, Scottish moral philosopher and economist whose writings established the intellectual foundations of classical economics. 1806: Edward Davy, English-born Australian physician, chemist, and inventor renowned for his pioneering contributions to electric telegraphy, including the independent development…
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June 15, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Only a very small number of people are truly evil. But a very large number of people are conformists. To prevent evil on a mass scale it’s more important for us to ward against our own instinct to conform with the crowd than it is to worry about anything else.” —…
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June 14, 2026
THOUGHT FOR 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…
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June 13, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair…the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will…
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June 12, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save it from that ruin which except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable. And education, too, is where…
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June 11, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The shame of speaking unskilfully were small if the tongue onely were thereby disgrac’d: But as the Image of a King in his Seale ill-represented is not so much a blemish to the waxe, or the Signet that seat’d it, as to the Prince it representeth, so disordered speech is not…
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