Opportunities are multiplied as they are seized.

- Sun Tzu (544-496 BC)
Chinese general and philosopher

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

-14th Dalai Lama (1940- )

Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul, which you never regard or heed at all?

-Socrates (470?-399BC)
Greek philosopher

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest execises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

- H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
American essayist and journalist

Let me write the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.

- Andrew Fletcher (1655-1716)
Scottish patriot

This I love. And resemble more each day.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace, to be real, must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people to ignorance.

- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
3rd President of the US
In a letter to George Wythe, 1786

A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.

- Chinese proverb

If you can’t fly, run; if you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl; but by all means keep moving.

–Martin Luther King Jr.

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.

- Japanese proverb

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

- Dalai Lama (1935- )
14th Dalai Lama

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social on Mike Johnson considering conditioning disaster aid: "Never in California did we question whether or not we, as taxpayers in the largest state in the Union, should support the people of Louisiana at a time of emergency and need. We’d never condition it."

Dogmatism and scepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is *certainty*, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
British mathematician, philosopher

The traffic lights, they turn blue tomorrow
And shine their emptiness down on my bed
The tiny island sags downstream
'Cause the life that lived is dead

- Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970)
"The Wind Cries Mary"

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

- Buddha

Paris view with digital processing.

Paris view with digital processing.

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.

As a rule, we disbelieve all facts and theories for which we have no use.

Religion, in short, is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

- William James (1842-1910)
American psychologist, philosopher

Live your life so that eulogies to a great man don't sound like personal attacks.

We should regard people, animals, trees, rivers, even mountains in the same light as ourselves and realize that we have much in common.

- Tsunesaburo Makiguchi (1871-1944)
Japanese educator

How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

- Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180)
Roman Emperor, Stoic philosopher

Experience never errs; what alone may err is our judgement, which predicts effects that cannot be produced by our experiments.

- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Painter, sculptor architect, engineer, inventor

On action alone be thy interest,
Never on its fruits.

- The Bhagavad Gita