April 22, 2015

Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...

Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804):

“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.”

Henry Fielding (1707 – 1754):

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

Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977):

“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”

J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904 – 1967):

“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.”

Charles Mingus (1922 – 1979):

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

Louise Glück (1943 - ):

“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.”