For Thought
Wednesday 16 November 2011
You cannot carve your way to heaven’s throne if you sit locked in vanity alone. You need a skilful guide; you cannot start this ocean-voyage with blindness in your heart.
THE CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS
Michel de Montaigne
(1533-1592)
The active pursuit of truth is our proper business. We have no excuse for conducting it badly or unfittingly. But failure to capture our prey is another matter. For we are born to quest after it; to possess it belongs to a greater power. Truth is not, as Democritus said, hidden in the depths of the abyss, but situated rather at an infinite height in the divine understanding. The world is but a school of inquiry
ESSAYS
When I was young, I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.
ALBERT EINSTEIN