Quote of the Day for 2016-02-13

"All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods."

— William James (1842-1910) Lecture at the Harvard Divinity School, March 13, 1884

The Oracle lattice by Justin DaCosta

Quote of the Day for 2016-02-04

"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."

— Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Quoted by Bettina von Arnim in a letter to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, May 28, 1810

No. 2 in a series of Beethoven engravings (1931-1938) by Michel Katzaroff (1891-1953), sold not just as prints, but also as postcards.

Quote of the Day for 2015-11-17

"You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else."

— Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) "Virginibus Puerisque," Cornhill Magazine, August 1876

Bad puns must also be shared.

Quote of the Day for 2015-09-20

"But what experience and historians teach is this—that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on the principles deduced from it."

— Georg Hegel (1770-1831) Lectures on the Philosophy of History, "Introduction"

George W. Bush and his inner circle, photographed in the Cabinet Room of the White House in December 2001. From left: Secretary of State Colin Powell, Vice President Dick Cheney, the president, National-Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, White House chief of staff Andrew Card, C.I.A. director George Tenet (seated), and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld., Photograph by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair.