Quote of the Day for 2016-08-19

"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."

— W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) "Anima Hominis" from Per Amica Silentia Lunae (1917)

Sigmund Freud's couch in his home at Berggasse 19, Vienna, Austria (1938) Photograph by Edmund Engelman

Quote of the day for 2015-12-27

"The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes."

— G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) "The Skeptic as a Critic," The Forum, February 1929

Political cartoon by Henri Meyer, which depicts, among other things, the tensions between Great Britain and Germany while carving up China. Published in Le Petit Journal Sunday supplement (January 16, 1898)