Quote of the Day for 2016-09-26

"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth."

— Theodor Adorno (1903-1969) Minima Moralia, section 143 (1951) translated by E.F.N. Jephcott (1974)

Fall of the Magician engraving by Pieter van der Heyden (1565) after Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Quote of the Day for 2016-04-05

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

— Plato (c. 428-348 BCE) Phaedo, chapter 115 (c. 348 BCE)

CEOs of the seven largest tobacco companies being sworn in at a congressional hearing on the regulation of tobacco products (April 14, 1994) Minutes after this photograph was taken, each of them would lie under oath that nicotine was not addictive. Left to right, Donald Johnston (American Tobacco), Thomas Sandefur (Brown and Williamson), Edward Horrigan (Liggett Group), Andrew Tisch (Lorillard), Joseph Taddeo (US Tobacco), James Johnston (RJ Reynolds), and William Campbell (Philip Morris)

Quote of the Day for 2016-03-21

"For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in."

— Samuel Lover (1797-1868) "Paddy Blake's Echo"

Adele Astaire and her brother Fred in a promotional picture for Lady, Be Good (1926)