Tag Archives: Knowledge

Thought For the Day: Share Your Knowledge So That Others May Illuminate Their Lives

“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.” – Margaret Fuller, author (23 May 1810-1850)          

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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Skewed

Invisibly standing under a pale light moon Reading the past into my future like a rune I think of things done and that I’ve viewed And see quite clearly how much of it is skewed Somewhere in a life borne … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Integrity Without Knowledge Is Weak; Knowledge Without Integrity Is Dreadful

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.” —Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)              

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Thought For the Day: Never Let Your Schooling Get In the Way of Your Education

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain              

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First Principles: Diffusion of Knowledge and Virtue Secures Our Liberty

“If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security.” – Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, 1779        

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Mercury In Retrograde

Mercury In Retrograde by Michael Romani With a nose outside of my usual encyclopedia I took a look out into the social media It seems that astrology has become a meme But, I ask myself, what does that really mean … Continue reading

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Seven Points of Beatitude (Sapientia)

Seven Points of Beatitude by Michael Romani As the ghosts of one year floated by to be received In a clarity of slumber of one refusing to be self-deceived I had turned on the television intending to rest a moment … Continue reading

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Thought for the Day: When Books Are Allowed To Burn, Men Burn Next

“Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.” – Heinrich Heine, poet, journalist, and essayist (13 Dec 1797-1856)        

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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Berkeley – Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous, et al

Born on March 12, 1685 and passing on January 14, 173, Bishop George Berkeley was an Irish philosopher who advanced the theory of immaterialism or subjective idealism.  This theory is much like the Hindu concept of maya (as I understand … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Freedom Leads To Prosperity

“There stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity.” – Ronald Reagan      

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