Quote for Today: Georg Simmel
Our fellowman either may voluntarily reveal to us the truth about himself, or by dissimulation he may deceive us as to the truth. No other object of knowledge can …
Quote for Today: Buckminster Fuller
I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep …
Quote for Today: J.M. Darhower
I’m going to tell you something that a wise man once told me: it’s not the darkness that’s terrifying, it’s what you might find in it. I was always afraid …
Quote for Today: Timothy Snyder
It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to understand the actions of the perpetrators. The moral danger, after all, is never that one might become a victim but that …
Quote for Today: Brittney Morris
As we duel, as we chat, there’s an understanding that “your black is not my black” and “your weird is not my weird” and “your beautiful is not my beautiful,” …
Quote for Today: Susan Griffin
– She was a normal wild beast, whose power is dangerous, whose anger can kill, they had said. Be more careful of her, they advised. Allow her less excitement. Perhaps …
Quote for Today: Terence McKenna
Every culture that’s ever existed has operated under the illusion that it understood 95% of reality and that the other 5% would be delivered in the next 18 months, …
Quote for Today: Marie-Louise Sjoestedt
The inscriptions (mere names or epithets of divinities) and the monuments (in so far as they are purely Celtic, for we must reckon with the possibility of Roman influence) give …
Quote for Today: Edith Wharton
The sensation was part of the general strangeness that made him feel like a man waking from a long sleep to find himself in an unknown country among people of …
Quote for Today: David Whyte
To want to run away is an essence of being human, it transforms any staying through the transfigurations of choice. To think about fleeing from circumstances, from a marriage, a …