April 22, 2014

Good Morning!

Today is the birthday of Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) who said:

“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”

and

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

and

“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”

It is also the birthday of Henry Fielding (1707 – 1754) who said:

“I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.”

Birthday greetings to Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977) who said:

“My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.”

and

“Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.”

and

“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.”

Happy Birthday to J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904 – 1967) who said:

“Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

and

“The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.”

Today is the birthday of Charles Mingus (1922 – 1979) who said:

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”

Finally, it is the birthday of Louise Glück (1943 - ) who said:

“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.”

and

“At first I saw you everywhere.

Now only in certain things,

at longer intervals.”