Tag: reading
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May 15, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.” — Mikhail Bulgakov BIRTHDAYS: 1565 Henrick de Keyser, Dutch architect and sculptor (master builder of Amsterdam). 1567 Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer and pioneer in opera (e.g., L’Orfeo). L`Orfeo (1:35) 1856 L. Frank Baum, American author (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz). 1891 Bulgakov, Russian playwright…
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May 14, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.” — Epicurus BIRTHDAYS: 1727 Thomas Gainsborough, English portrait and landscape painter (The Blue Boy).…
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May 13, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Belief gets in the way of learning.” — Robert A. Heinlein BIRTHDAYS: 1756 Wojciech Żywny, Polish pianist, composer, and teacher (Chopin’s first piano instructor). Polonez 1842 Arthur Sullivan, British composer (known for comic operas with W.S. Gilbert, e.g., The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado; also Onward, Christian Soldiers). The Long Day…
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May 12, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.” — Ambrose Bierce BIRTHDAYS: 1803 Justus von Liebig, German agricultural and biological chemist (founder of organic chemistry). 1812 Edward Lear, English landscape painter and poet (known for Complete Nonsense). 1820 Florence Nightingale, pioneering nurse and statistician (often associated with scientific/medical…
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May 11, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” — Richard Feynman BIRTHDAYS: 1772 Henri-Jean Rigel, French composer, music director. Symphony no.14 mov. 2&3 1791 Jan Václav Voříšek, Czech pianist, organist, and composer. Symphony in D major op. 23 1823 Alfred Stevens, Belgian painter. 1824…
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May 10, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.” — F.A. Hayek BIRTHDAYS: 1697 Jean-Marie Leclair l’aîné, French violinist and Baroque composer. A2 Allegro（Third movement from Sonata in B minor, Op.5 No.5, and Violin Sonata no.3 in D Major, and Sarabande et tambourin (3d sonata from the 4th book of sonatas for violin and basso…
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May 9, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.” — G.K. Chesterton BIRTHDAYS: 1265 Dante Alighieri, Italian poet and author (Dante’s Inferno, Divina Commedia). 1829 Ciro Pinsuti, Italian pianist and composer, born in Sinalunga, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Sonetto di Dante. 1850 Edward Weston, English-born American electrical engineer and…
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May 8, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.” — Friedrich August von Hayek BIRTHDAYS: 1737 Edward Gibbon,…
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May 7, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not.” — Yamamoto Tsunetomo BIRTHDAYS: 1711 David Hume, Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, widely regarded as one of the most important figures of the Scottish Enlightenment and one…
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May 6, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The characteristic note of our time is the dire truth that, the mediocre soul, the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be mediocre, has the gall to assert its right to mediocrity, and goes on to impose itself where it can.” — Jose Ortega y Gasset BIRTHDAYS: 1581 Frans Francken the Younger,…
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