2022/12/30

Todays Thought

 A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice. -Jerry Coyne, biology professor (b. 30 Dec 1949)

2022/12/23

Todays Thought

 A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. -William Blake, poet, engraver, and painter (28 Nov 1757-1827)

Todays Thought

 A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

If you want a symbolic gesture, don’t burn the flag, wash it. -Norman Thomas, socialist and social reformer (20 Nov 1884-1968)

2022/12/14

Why Billionaires Are Actually Ruining the Economy | WIRED

Todays Thought

 A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

In its original literal sense, "moral relativism" is simply moral complexity. That is, anyone who agrees that stealing a loaf of bread to feed one's children is not the moral equivalent of, say, shoplifting a dress for the fun of it, is a relativist of sorts. But in recent years, conservatives bent on reinstating an essentially religious vocabulary of absolute good and evil as the only legitimate framework for discussing social values have redefined "relative" as "arbitrary". -Ellen Jane Willis, writer (14 Dec 1941-2006)

2022/12/12

Todays Thought

 A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work. -Gustave Flaubert, novelist (12 Dec 1821-1880)

2022/12/11

Todays Thought

 A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? -Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (11 Dec 1918-2008)

2022/12/09

Todays Thought

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Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty. -Louis Kronenberger, writer (9 Dec 1904-1980)

2022/12/05

Todays Thought

 A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind. -Thomas Carlyle, essayist and historian (4 Dec 1795-1881)

Todays Thought

 A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. -Christina Rossetti, poet (5 Dec 1830-1894)