Umberto Eco, on reality
“I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”
Archive for the ‘Literature’ Category
Quote of the day, June 26
June 26, 2017Quote of the day, June 23
June 23, 2017Ralph Waldo Emerson, on knowledge
“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
Quote of the day, June 22
June 23, 2017William Shakespeare, on action
“Action is eloquence.”
Quote of the day, June 18
June 19, 2017Mark Twain, on freedom
“It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.”
Quote of the day, June 17
June 17, 2017Rudyard Kipling,on making the most of life
“Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.”
Quote of the day, June 10
June 16, 2017Virgil, from The Aeneid
“Through various hazards and events we move.”
Quote of the day, June 9
June 16, 2017Charles Dickens, from Martin Chuzzlewit
“What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to anotheR.”
Quote of the day, June 8
June 16, 2017Henry David Thoreau, on wisdom
“It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”
Quote of the day, June 6
June 16, 2017Joseph Addison, on friendship
“The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.”
Quote of the day, June 5
June 16, 2017Ralph Waldo Emerson, on one’s actions
“A man’s action is only a picture book of his creed.”
