Category Archives: Wise Words and Quotations
From Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning “Man’s Search for Meaning” (Viktor E. Frankl) There is no reason to pity old people. Instead, young people should envy them. It is true that the old have no opportunities, no possibilities in the future. But they have more than that. Instead of possibilities in the future, they [...]
Michael Yon, embedded with the troops for the past three years posts this photograph and calls it Thanks and Praise as men and women, both Christian and Muslim, place a cross atop St. John’s Church in Bagdad, a church that had been bombed and burned in 2004 but has since been restored with the cross, [...]
In an interview with the Financial Times, the novelist Tom Wolfe makes the following remarkable comment…. I’ve only conversed with him a couple of times – not for very long – but I found he was more literate on literature than the editor of the New York Review of Books, Bob Silvers.
“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful” William Morris in an 1880 lecture on The Beauty of LIfe.
Albert Einstein From Einstein & Faith by Walter isaacson, an excerpt from his newly published book Einstein: His Life and Universe. Below is the Albert Einstein Memorial in front of the National Academy of Science in Washington, sculpted by my friend, Bob Berks.
When Albert Kaplan bought this daguerreotype, Portrait of a Young Man in 1977, it reminded him of Lincoln somehow. Years later, he appears to have proved that it is a portrait of a young Lincoln with authentication both scholarly and authoritative available at Lincolnportrait.com As a young man, Lincoln was not particularly religious.
How brief it seems in the bitterness of disillusion; and yet how perennial it is in the perspective of mankind — how in the end it saves a bit of us from decay and enshrines our life anew in the youth and vigor of the child!… On The Value Of Love Youth, if it were wise, would cherish love beyond all things else, keeping body and soul clear for its coming, lengthening its days with months of betrothal, sanctioning it with a marriage of solemn ritual, making all things subordinate to it resolutely.
With so many preparations for Christmas, blogging is spotty, but I can’t miss sharing this, one of the funniest stories I’ve read in a while…. Lick It Good with the unforgettable line.
My favorite movie reviewer is Roger Ebert and I particularly missed him this summer when he was hospitalized with salivary cancer and later complications…. The good news is that my rehabilitation is a profound education in the realities of the daily lives we lead, and my mind is still capable of being delighted by cinematic greatness.
“Science is organized knowledge.
