“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” Socrates Daily, we get wrapped up in fighting our own personal battles. We easily forget that people are the same as us, and have their personal battles too. We love their kind thoughts toward us when we share our battles with them. We doContinue reading “Quote of the Day: Kindness”
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Quote of the Day: Opinion
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.” Bertrand Russell Bertrand Russell is perhaps my favourite of the “modern-day” philosophers as he made philosophy available to a wide audience through his books, lectures, and broadcasts. This quote will surely resonate with all the scientists, academics, inventors, andContinue reading “Quote of the Day: Opinion”
Quote of the Day: Progress
“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” Frank Zappa American singer Frank Zappa may not be remembered for his philosophical quotes, but, wow, this one is a cracker! I have written before about change and this quote is along the same theme. Change is inevitable, and not all change is positive, but changeContinue reading “Quote of the Day: Progress”
Quote of the Day: Life
“May you live every day of your life.” Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift was an 18th Century Irish writer best known for the novel “Gulliver’s Travels”, although he was a prolific writer of poems, essays, pamphlets, prayers, and sermons. This quote reminds us there is a difference between being alive and living. Being alive is aContinue reading “Quote of the Day: Life”
Quote of the Day: Laughter
“A day without laughter is a day wasted.” Nicolas Chamfort Nicolas Chamfort was an 18th Century French writer who had a rather tragic end to his life during the final throws of the excesses of the French Revolution when after a failed suicide attempt, he was left scarred and in pain for his final days.Continue reading “Quote of the Day: Laughter”
Quote of the Day: Change
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” Mahatma Gandhi This quote, for me, is all about ownership. Owning the change that you would like to make and not waiting for others to make it for you. Facillitate, impress, encourage and, if necessary, cajole, but make it happen yourself! And then beContinue reading “Quote of the Day: Change”
Quote of the Day: More on Hope
“Hope is a waking dream.” Aristotle To continue my recent theme on hope, today I go back to 4th Century Athens, and one of the great philosophers of all time, Aristotle. I like this quote as Aristotle somehow makes hope into an active emotion, taking it from the subconscious mind into the conscious and makingContinue reading “Quote of the Day: More on Hope”
Quote of the Day: Liberty
“Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains” Jean-Jacques Rousseau A famous quote on liberty from the 18th Century that still rings true today. Rousseau postulates that our governments and states imprison us with laws, however, I believe that western states, for the most part, protect us from anarchy. What do you think? ThankContinue reading “Quote of the Day: Liberty”
Quote of the Day: Achievement
“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it” Epicurus This quote is all about the joy of achieving. Epicurus was a 4th-century bce philosopher from Athens and is best known for his theories of hedonism and pleasure. Glory can be defined as “high renown or honour won by notable achievements” and to me,Continue reading “Quote of the Day: Achievement”
Quote of the Day: Science
“Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know” Bertrand Russell I have a love of both science and philosophy and have been, and still am, a student of each. To “know” something in science you must exhaustedly try to falsify the theory, and when you can’t, you take the theory to beContinue reading “Quote of the Day: Science”
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