Tag: writing
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May 26, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” — Aristotle BIRTHDAYS: 1591 Dirck Janszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer, baptized in Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. Fantasia cromatica 1602 Philippe de Champaigne, French painter. 1731 Orazio Mei, Italian organist, and composer,…
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May 25, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “History is the mighty Tower of Experience, which Time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. It is no easy task to reach the top of this ancient structure and get the benefit of the full view. There is no elevator, but young feet are strong and it can…
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May 24, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.” — Bertrand Russell…
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May 23, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” — Isaac Asimov BIRTHDAYS: 1620 Pieter Neefs, the Younger, Flemish painter (church interiors) 1696 Johann Caspar Vogler, German composer and organist, born in Hausen, Schwarzburg-Arnstad. Machs mit mir Gott, nach deiner Güt 1707 Carl Linnaeus, Swedish biologist and physician…
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May 22, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.” — John Stuart Mill BIRTHDAYS: 1660 Andreas Schlüter, German sculptor, baptized in Free Imperial City of Hamburg. 1759 Gervais-François Couperin, French…
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May 21, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Intellectual freedom is essential — freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices. Such freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can…
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May 20, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire…
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May 19, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “How can you thank a man for giving you what’s already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?” — Malcolm X BIRTHDAYS: 1616 Johann Jakob Froberger, German singer, organist, and composer, baptized in Stuttgart, Duchy of Württemberg. Toccata, FbWV 102, and Toccata…
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May 18, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “He that letsthe small things bind himleaves the greatundone behind him.” — Piet Hein, “Small Things and Great” BIRTHDAYS: 1048 Omar Khayyám, Persian mathematician (cubic equations), astronomer (Jalali calendar, basis of the Persian calendar), poet (quatrains), and philosopher, born in Nishapur, Khorasan. 1830 (Károly) “Karl” Goldmark, Hungarian-Viennese violinist and composer. Air…
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May 17, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: ”If science ceases to be a rebellion against authority, then it does not deserve the talents of our brightest children.” — Freeman Dyson BIRTHDAYS: 1749 Edward Jenner, English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines and created the smallpox vaccine, the world’s first vaccine. 1866 Erik Satie, French composer.…
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