Archive for the ‘Words of Wisdom’ Category
Ralph Waldo Emerson on the value of blogging
On February - 2 - 2009
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of the transcendentalist movement in the early 19th century. He didn’t have a blog or any idea what one might be, but he is able to tell us why blogging is valuable.
The good of publishing one’s thoughts is that of hooking to you like-minded men, and of giving to men whom you value… one hour of stimulated thought.
— From The Heart of Emerson’s Journals, ed. Bliss Perry, p. 94. Entry of 20 June 1835 (Emerson was 32 years old).
This life as you now live it…
On January - 12 - 2009
The Gay* Science
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Greatest Weight. — What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: “This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence — even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!” Read the rest of this entry »
Over analyze or move on?
On January - 8 - 2009
Business failed? Love of your live left you? Cat died? Got fired? Lost your house? Totaled your expensive car? Found out your favorite TV show got canceled? Friends betrayed you?
“You can spend minutes, days, hours, or months over analyzing a situation, trying to justify what happened. Or you can leave the pieces on the floor and move the f— on.”
– Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971- Sept. 12, 1996)
What would you do if any of that happened to you?
Words of Wisdom #8
On December - 22 - 2007
This time we’ll bathe in one truly important insight of Galileo Galilei, the father of modern science.
Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 - 8 January 1642) was a Tuscan (Italian) physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher who played a major role in the scientific revolution.
The quoted idea is of great importance, as it sheds a much needed ray of light on the works of many writers, bloggers and educators. We’d all like to be considered as ‘influential’ and eye-opening individuals for the society, but truth be told, we’re very limited in that regard.
