What we know is not much.
What we do not know is immense.
(Laplace (?).)
Μήνας: Μάιος 2017
Laplace, «The last thing…»
The last thing we expect of you,
General, is a lesson in geometry!
(Laplace to Napoleon.)
If the moon…
If the moon be with thee,
thou needest not to care
about the stars.
(Arabian proverb.)
Σόλων, «Τὰ σπουδαῖα…»
Τὰ σπουδαῖα μελέτα.
(Σόλων.)
Σόλων, «Σφραγίζου…»
Σφραγίζου τοὺς μὲν λόγους σιγῇ,
τὴν δὲ σιγὴν καιρῷ.
(Σόλων.)
Carl Jung, «Man needs difficulties…»
Man needs difficulties;
they are necessary for health.
(Carl Jung: The transcendent function.)
Daily quote: Dostojevsky, «Money…»
Money is coined liberty.
(Dostojevsky: The house of the dead.)
Όμηρος, «Ἐπὶ ξυροῦ»
Ἐπὶ ξυροῦ ἵσταται ἀκμῆς.
(Όμηρος: Ιλιάδα.)
Daily quote: Homer, «Life and death…»
Life and death are balanced
as it were on the edge of a razor.
(Homer: Iliad.)
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Daily quote: Mark Twain, «If man had created man…»
If man had created man
he would be ashamed
of his performance.
(Mark Twain: Notebooks.)
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