Archive for the ‘Quotes’ Category

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola - Thinking versus Knowing

Monday, April 14th, 2008

From Opera Omnia

"And while we wander far from our fatherland and abide in this night and darkness of our present life, we must make use of that which turns us aside to the senses, for which reason we think many things rather than know them."

 



Don’t just sit there

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

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"If you are cold; Move! Run! Jump! Do something.  But don’t just sit there and let the cold become stronger than you are."

Rachel Pludermacher, OSE Educator in the film Children of Chilbannes