Todays Word

 

collier’s faith

PRONUNCIATION:

(KAHL-yuhrz fayth) 

MEANING:

noun: Unreasonable faith; blind faith.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin fides carbonarii (collier’s faith), from German köhlerglaube (collier’s faith). The term may have arisen from the dangerous and uncertain nature of coal mining. Earliest documented use: 1680.

USAGE:

“Our love for art might inspire in us a collier’s faith to say what others have said before and will say again after us. Namely that even if the situation is ominous, and even if we’re very poor &c. &c., yet we firmly concentrate on one single thing, on painting, naturally.” [Van Gogh writing to his brother Theo, circa Nov 8, 1883]
Patrick Grant; Reading Vincent van Gogh: A Thematic Guide to the Letters; 2016.

Todays Thought

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. 

-Ernest Hemingway, author and journalist, Nobel laureate (21 Jul 1899-1961)

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Todays Thought

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power. 

-Jerry Rubin, activist and author (14 Jul 1938-1994)

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Todays Thought

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. 

-Buckminster Fuller, engineer, designer, and architect (12 Jul 1895-1983)

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