Posted on July 29, 2020July 29, 2020 “No furniture so charming as books.”—Sydney Smith, English writer, 1771-1845
Posted on July 28, 2020July 28, 2020 “Nature fits all her children with something to do; he who would write and can’t write, can surely review.”—James Russell Lowell, American poet, 1819-1891
Posted on July 26, 2020July 26, 2020 “We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.”—Anais Nin, American-Cuban essayist, 1903-1977
Posted on July 24, 2020July 24, 2020 “A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.”—H.L. Mencken, American satirist, 1880-1956
Posted on July 23, 2020July 23, 2020 “The most beautiful house in the world is the one that you build for yourself.”—Witold Rybczynski, American architect, 1943-
Posted on July 22, 2020 “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”—Aldous Huxley, English philosopher, 1894-1963
Posted on July 18, 2020July 18, 2020 “Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone but principally by catchwords.”—Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, 1850-1894
Posted on July 12, 2020July 12, 2020 “All great truths begin as blasphemies.”—George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, 1856-1950
Posted on July 10, 2020July 10, 2020 “Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.”—Jules Henri Poincaré, French polymath, 1854-1912
Posted on July 9, 2020July 9, 2020 “The real problem is not whether machines can think, but whether men do.”—B.F. Skinner, American psychologist, 1904-1990
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