Quote of the Day for 2016-08-05

"Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth."

— Clifford D. Simak (1904-1988) "Time Quarry," chapter 39, Galaxy Science Fiction magazine (December 1950)

Soviet propaganda poster, In the Name of Peace by Irakli Toidze (1959)

Quote of the Day for 2016-07-15

"And the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

— Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) Leviathan, part 1, chapter 13 (1651)

The death of Eric Garner, at the hands of NYPD officers, in Staten Island, New York, as recorded by his friend, Ramsey Orta (July 17, 2014)

Quote of the Day for 2016-07-12

"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."

— E.B. White (1899-1985) "Coon Tree," The New Yorker (June 14, 1956)

Relief from the Ara Pacis (9 BCE) depicting the goddess Tellus Mater (Mother Earth) flanked by the Aurae (Peaceful Breezes) of sea and land

Quote of the Day for 2016-02-23

"With love for mankind and hatred of sins."

— St. Augustine (354-430) Epistle CCXI, Opera Omnia

Michael Keaton as Betelgeuse in Beetlejuice (1988)

Quote of the Day for 2016-02-06

"The Child is father of the Man; / And I could wish my days to be / Bound each to each by natural piety."

— William Wordsworth (1770-1850) "My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold," Poems in Two Volumes

Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows by John Constable (1831)

Quote of the Day for 2015-12-24

"Man has his will,—but woman has her way."

— Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table," The Atlantic Monthly, December 1857

Smile for the Camera by Brianna Garcia (2006)

Quote of the Day for 2015-08-04

"Man [is a] tool-making animal."

— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Quoted by James Boswell in The Life of Samuel Johnson, April 7, 1778

Stone Hand-Axe, Number 2,2014 by Ami Drach and Dov Ganchrow