VOLTAIRE ~ READING AND DANCING
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.” Voltaire
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ALBERT EINSTEIN ~ ON IMAGINATION
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” Albert Einstein
BERTRAND RUSSELL ~ THE POINT OF PHILOSOPHY
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. Bertrand Russell
SCHOPENHAUER ~ ROYAL ART
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. Arthur Schopenhauer
PLATO ~ MUSIC AS A MORAL LAW
“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. ” Plato
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER ~ ON INTELLIGENCE
portrait_by_ludwig_sigismund_ruhl_1815 The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him. Arthur Schopenhauer
SCHOPENHAUER ~ ON BEING AN AUTHOR
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible. Arthur Schopenhauer
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR ~ ON LIFE
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone de Beauvoir
BARUCH SPINOZA ~ ON BEING HAPPY
“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.” Baruch de Spinoza, (1632-1677), Jewish philosopher. His “Tractatus theologico-politico” defends freedom of thought and tolerance. German School. Herzogliche Bibliothek, Wolfenbuettel, Germany. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)
SCHOPENHAUER ~ ON LIFE AND DEATH
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. Arthur Schopenhauer
