Quote of the Day -- Roger Scruton

Put usefulness first and you lose it. Put beauty first and what you do will be useful forever. It turns out that nothing is more useful than useless. We see this in traditional architecture, with its decorative details. Ornaments liberate us from the tyranny of the useful and satisfy our need for harmony. In a strange way, they make us feel at home. They remind us that we have more practical needs. We're not just governed by animal appetites like eating and sleeping. We have spiritual and moral needs, too. And if those needs go unsatisfied, so do we.

-- Roger Scruton

Quote of the Day -- Pablo Picasso

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

-- Pablo Picasso

Quote of the Day -- Samuel Johnson

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to further progress. 

-- Samuel Johnson

Quote of the Day -- Vernon Vinge

We are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

-- Vernon Vinge

Quote of the Day -- Beverly Sills

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

-- Beverly Sills

Quote of the Day -- Confucius

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

-- Confucius

Quote of the Day -- George Washington

Happiness depends more upon the internal flame of a person's own mind than on the externals of the world.

-- George Washington

Quote of the Day -- Paul Coelho

This wasn't a strange place; it was a new one.

-- Paul Coelho

Quote of the Day -- Carl Sagan

If we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed. 

-- Carl Sagan

Quote of the Day -- Richard Feynman

We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.

-- Richard Feynman