The fact is that neither of us knows anything beautiful and good, but he thinks he does know when he doesn’t, and I don’t know and don’t think I do: so I am wiser than he is by only this trifle that what I do not know I don’t think I do.
Plato quoting Socrates in Apology (The Apology of Socrates)
Submitted by Adam
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Weekly Entries for Week of March 23-29, 2009
Entry 1
We are not here on this earth for long, we commit many bad deeds, and we say much that we should not. Therefore, let us all take advantage of any opportunity of social interaction to say a kind word to one another.
Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Karamazov Brothers
Entry 2
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
John Donne (1572-1631), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII
Commentary from the submitter: "No man is an island" is such a profound statement. No man can limit the extent of his impact on mankind. Nor can a man remove himself from his loved ones and family completely. This man will remember who he is and hear that the bell tolls for him to come home.
Entry 3
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina
Entry 4
A person without a sense of humour is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble in the road.
Henry Ward Beecher
Monday, March 16, 2009
It's a fridge off
So we have our first fridge tie. I'm not sure what we will do, but this week I propose a 24 hour fridge off. Please see the poll to vote for one of the two finalists this week. Entries for next week should also be up in the next 24 hours. We know you can't wait.
Entry 2
I walked a mile with Pleasure,
She chattered all the way;
But left me none the wiser,
for all she had to say.
I walked a mile with Sorrow
Ne'er a word said she;
But, oh, the things I learned from her
when Sorrow walked with me!
-Robert Browning Hamilton
Entry 4
The fact is that neither of us knows anything beautiful and good, but he thinks he does know when he doesn’t, and I don’t know and don’t think I do: so I am wiser than he is by only this trifle that what I do not know I don’t think I do.
Plato quoting Socrates in Apology (The Apology of Socrates)
Entry 2
I walked a mile with Pleasure,
She chattered all the way;
But left me none the wiser,
for all she had to say.
I walked a mile with Sorrow
Ne'er a word said she;
But, oh, the things I learned from her
when Sorrow walked with me!
-Robert Browning Hamilton
Entry 4
The fact is that neither of us knows anything beautiful and good, but he thinks he does know when he doesn’t, and I don’t know and don’t think I do: so I am wiser than he is by only this trifle that what I do not know I don’t think I do.
Plato quoting Socrates in Apology (The Apology of Socrates)
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