‘Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too. ~ Marcus Aurelius

7 months ago / 42 visits

‘But, friend, when you know certain things: these things lead to dispassion not to passion; to detachment not to bondage, to diminution not to accumulation; to having few wishes, not to having many wishes, to contentment, not to discontent; to seclusion, not to gregariousness, to the arousing of ene…

7 months ago / 39 visits

"We had the experience and missed the meaning"

7 months ago / 45 visits

Neither science nor philosophy can show us the meaning of life. ~ Anthony Kenny

15 months ago / 108 visits

Everything's laughter, everything is dust, everything noting. Out of unreason comes everything that exists. ~ Greek epigram

15 months ago / 107 visits

“Opinions lie in the street,” Thomas Mann says somewhere. “Anybody can pick them up” . . . .

22 months ago / 107 visits

“No wild beast is more savage than man when his passion is supplemented with power” ~ Plutarch

22 months ago / 110 visits

“What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?” goes a Chinese proverb

22 months ago / 116 visits

The Act of Prohibition makes the withheld items more alluring that it could ever otherwise have been. Excerpt: “Pandora’s Jar” - Natalie Haynes

2 years ago / 127 visits

“A Nation's essence and character lie in its language, its thought and sensibility, its whole style and civilization ~ Kurt Wachsmuth, German philologist

2 years ago / 107 visits

“A Chair is not an artifact of service but an artifact of culture” ~ Ralph Caplan

2 years ago / 146 visits

. . . . .When a traveler asked Wordsworth’s servant to show him her master’s study, she answered, “Here is his library, but his study is out of doors.” - page 8

2 years ago / 114 visits

. . . Respect is the homage one pays to the order itself, rather than to the individuals. The first condition for a smooth-running social order in respect for it ~ Page 202

2 years ago / 127 visits

. . . . all medieval towns had a few common characteristics. Walls enclosed the town. (The terms ‘burgher’ and bourgeois” derive from the Old English and Old German words ‘burg,’ ‘ borg,’ and ‘borough’ for “a walled or fortified place.”

2 years ago / 141 visits

“Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.”

3 years ago / 152 visits