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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Marcel Duchamp
October 17, 2025
The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?
Terry Pratchett
October 16, 2025
Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.
Loren Eiseley
October 15, 2025
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
Thomas Szasz
October 14, 2025
It is our imagination that is responsible for love, not the other person.
Marcel Proust
October 13, 2025
Children should be taught about history not as is usually the case now, that this is the record of long past events, which one ought to know about for some reason or other. But that this is a story from which one may learn not only what has happened, but what may, and probably will, happen again.
Doris Lessing
October 12, 2025
Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves.
Simone Weil
October 11, 2025
I know nothing more stupid and indeed vulgar than wanting to be right.
Paul Valéry
October 10, 2025
Literature and history, these two great branches of human learning, records of human behaviour, human thought, are less and less valued by the young, and by educators, too. Yet from them one may learn how to be a citizen and a human being. We may learn how to look at ourselves and at the society we live in, in that calm, cool, critical and sceptical way which is the only possible stance for a civilized human being, or so have said all the philosophers and the sages.
Doris Lessing
October 9, 2025
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
Edwin Land
October 8, 2025
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