“Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.” “Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it… Read More T.S. Eliot & Evil
Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are? If you don’t know where you’re going, you will probably end up somewhere else. Laurence J. Peter (16 September 1919 –1990) the Canadian educator and author who coined the term ‘hierarchiology’ as the social science concerned with the basic principles of hierarchically organised… Read More Goals
Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the Canadian athlete and humanitarian Terry Fox. Terrance Stanley Fox (1958 -1981), after losing his right leg owing to bone cancer, ran 3,339 miles to raise money for research. He started on 12 April 1980, when he dipped his artificial leg into the Atlantic at Cape Spear, and ran close to… Read More The Marathon of Hope
“The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos” “Each of the major sciences has contributed an essential ingredient in our long retreat from an initial belief in our own cosmic importance. Astronomy… Read More Stephen Jay Gould and Evolutionary Progress
Originally posted on Rebecca's Light Scrive:
“Abbi cura di te” mi ha augurato Luisa, la cara Luisa, con la sua premura, gentilezza, sensibilità, con il suo affetto. La ringrazio di vero cuore. Ho sempre ragionato sulla bellezza di alcune parole o espressioni, e devo dire che “Abbi cura di te” è l’espressione, nella lingua…
Mary Renault (1905-1983) was born on this day, 4 September.She was an English-South African writer, best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece. The rightness of a thing isn’t determined by the amount of courage it takes. In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe,… Read More Mary Renault
Oggi 31 agosto si celebra la Giornata Internazionale della Solidarietà, che non penso significhi semplicemente dare, ma agire insieme contro le ingiustizie. “Homo sum: nihil humani a me alienum puto” → “Sono un uomo: niente di quel che capita a un uomo lo considero a me estraneo.”(Publio Terenzio) “Le mani che aiutano sono più sante… Read More Solidarietà
“Non si possiede ciò che non si comprende.” “Il dubbio cresce con la conoscenza.” “Niente è più terribile dell’ignoranza in azione.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 agosto 1749-1832) “Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.” “Doubt grows with knowledge.” “There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
Gabrielle (dite Coco) Chanel est née le 19 août 1883 à Saumur. 💄“Si vous êtes triste, ajoutez plus de rouge à lèvres et attaquez. Les hommes détestent les pleureuses.”💄“Se sei triste, metti un po’ più di rossetto e vai all’attacco. Gli uomini odiano le donne che piangono.”💄“If you’re sad, add more lipstick and attack. Men… Read More Coco Chanel
On 17 August 1945 George Orwell published “Animal Farm” an allegorical novella which has been defined a beast fable, a political allegory, an anti-utopian novel, which made him immediately famous. The original title was “Animal Farm: A Fairy Story”, but U.S. publishers dropped the subtitle when it was republished The Guardian on 24 August 1945 wrote that… Read More August 17, 1945: George Orwell’s Animal Farm
