Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) I have sometimes thought that a woman’s nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes in going in and out; the drawing-room, where one receives formal visits; the sitting-room, where the members of the family come and …
Muriel Spark On Death
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark (February 01, 1918 – April 13, 2006) If I had life to live over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Without an ever-present sense …
Václav Havel On Power
Václav Havel (October 5, 1936 – December 18, 2011) All power is power over someone, and it always somehow responds, usually unwittingly rather than deliberately, to the state of mind and the behavior of those it rules over… No one can govern in a vacuum. The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions …
Albert Einstein On Living
Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Martha Nussbaum On Emotions
Martha Nussbaum (May 06, 1947 -) Emotions are not just the fuel that powers the psychological mechanism of a reasoning creature, they are parts, highly complex and messy parts, of this creature’s reasoning itself.
David Frederick Attenborough On The Earth
Celebrate The Earth Every Day! David Frederick Attenborough (May 08 1926 -) At last nations are coming together and recognising we all live on the same planet. All these seven worlds are actually one and we are dependent on it for every mouthful of food we eat and every breath of air we …
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Aldous Huxley On Silence
Aldous Huxley (July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963) When the inexpressible had to be expressed, Shakespeare laid down his pen and called for music. And if the music should also fail? Well, there was always silence to fall back on. For always, always and everywhere, the rest is silence.
