Posted on May 12, 2023 “If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.”—Henri Nouwen, Dutch philosopher & theologian, 1932-1996 (Guest Editor—Deborah Allen)
Posted on May 1, 2023April 30, 2023 “To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.”—Robert M. Pirsig, American author & philosopher (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance), 1928-2017
Posted on April 14, 2023April 13, 2023 “The onset and the waning of love make themselves felt in the uneasiness experienced at being alone together.”—Jean de la Bruyére, French philosopher, 1645-1696
Posted on March 15, 2023March 14, 2023 “What good is a chain with a bad link?”—Nero Wolfe, fictional detective (Rex Stout, American mystery writer, 1886-1975)
Posted on March 5, 2023March 4, 2023 “Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.”—Democritus, Greek philosopher, 460-370 BC
Posted on February 27, 2023February 26, 2023 “Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.”—Marshall McLuhan, Canadian media theorist, 1911-1980
Posted on January 29, 2023 “The years teach much which the days never know.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher & poet, 1803-1882
Posted on December 21, 2022December 20, 2022 “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”—Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, 1881-1973
Posted on December 16, 2022December 16, 2022 “I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.”—Johannes Kepler, German astronomer, 1571-1630
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