If you appreciate my work, please buy me a coffee
$3.00
Category Archives: Thought For the Day
Thought For the Day: Free Thought Protects Against the Rise of Dictatorship
“Freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorships.” —Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989) Andrei D. Sakharov was the Russian designer … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Advocate, Andrei Sakharov, Civil Liberty, Dictatorship, Free Speech, Free Thought, Freedom, Nobel Prize, Nuclear, Protect, Thought For the Day
Leave a comment
Time Spent On the Harvard Classics: Of Agriculture – Abraham Cowley
“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Abraham Cowley, Essay, Harvard Classics, Literature, Of Agriculture, Poet, Western Civilization
Leave a comment
Thought For the Day: The Greatest Pain Is To Love In Vain
“A mighty pain to love it is, and ’tis a pain that pain to miss but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.” – Abraham Crowley
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Abraham Crowley, English, Love, Pain, Poet, Thought For the Day, Unrequitted
Leave a comment
Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery – Joseph Lister
There is perhaps little better time to acknowledge the advancement of antiseptic procedure than the anniversary of the famous paper published by Dr. Lister on July 27, 1867. Although antisepsis was recommended as early as 1847 by the Hungarian doctor, … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Antiseptic, Germ Theory, Havard Classics, Joseph Lister, Medicine, Pasteur, Surgery
Leave a comment
Thought For the Day: Courage Is A Seeming Contradiction
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.” – G K Chesterton
Posted in Thought For the Day, Uncategorized
Tagged Contradiction, Courage, Desire, G.K. Chesterton, Readiness, Veterans
Leave a comment
Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: The Imitation of Christ – Thomas à Kempis
A Christian devotional written by Thomas a Kempis, this is a handbook for spiritual life deriving from the Devotio Moderna movement. This religious classic may be the second most widely read Christian book next to The Bible. It is divided into … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Lead By Example
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.” – Albert Schweitzer
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Albert Schweitzer, Example, Influence, Lead, Teach, Thought For the Day
Leave a comment
Great American Songbook
The musical canon of important and influential popular and jazz standards from early to mid-20th century is known as either the Great American Songbook or alternatively simply the ‘American Standards’. This cannon is loosely defined but contains the most enduring songs … Continue reading
Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs (1876) is an epic Icelandic poem of over 10,000 lines translated by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson. It is essentially an English retelling of the Volsunga Saga and the … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Eirikir Magnusson, Elder Edda, Harvard Classics, Saga, Study, Volsunga, William Morris
Leave a comment
Thought For the Day: Discerning Truth Requires Experience
“There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.” – John Stuart Mill Without experience it is difficult to discern full truth. If you sit a moment and think on … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Discernment, Experience, John S Mill, Meaning, Personal, Thought For the Day, Truths
Leave a comment
ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 