Archive for category Philosophy
The Right To Read
Posted by Howard Yeend in Philosophy on March 13, 2009
Taken from http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
For Dan Halbert, the road to Tycho began in college–when Lissa Lenz asked to borrow his computer. Hers had broken down, and unless she could borrow another, she would fail her midterm project. There was no one she dared ask, except Dan.
Desiderata
Posted by Howard Yeend in Philosophy on March 13, 2008
By Max Ehrmann, 1927
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence. Read the rest of this entry »
ozymandias
Posted by Howard Yeend in Philosophy on March 13, 2008
A poem by PB Shelly:
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Read the rest of this entry »
Inspiring Quotes
Posted by Howard Yeend in Philosophy on March 13, 2008
A huge collection of inspiring quotes, you can read more by following @dailyquotes on twitter :) Although I haven’t updated that in a while…
“Nothing else matters, it seems, apart from gold”
Pythermus (6th century BC) only surviving writings
fr 910 cited in “Greek Lyric Poetry” by West 1993, p114
“Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a ‘necessary evil’, it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.”
- Sydney J. Harris (1917-1986) Read the rest of this entry »
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