Sing hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed to see such craft,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
Nursery Rhymes
Tag: Quote of the Day
05FEB2025 – Quote of the Day
I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance
Throughout my being’s limitless expanse,
Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages
I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.
Novalis
04FEB2025 – Quote of the Day
Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept.
Novalis
03JAN2025 – Quote of the Day
Man is the higher Sense of our Planet; the star which connects it with the upper world; the eye which it turns towards heaven.
Novalis
02FEB2025 – Quote of the Day
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
Novalis
01FEB2025 – Quote of the Day
Poets and priests were one in the beginning, and they only separated in later times. But the real poet is always a priest, just as the real priest always remains a poet.
Novalis
31JAN2025 – Quote of the Day
We dream of a journey through the universe. But is the universe then not in us? We do not know the depths of our spirit. Inward goes the secret path. Eternity with its worlds, the past and the future, is in us or nowhere.
Novalis
30JAN2025 – Quote of the Day
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Novalis
29JAN2025 – Quote of the Day
We are near waking when we dream that we dream.
Novalis
28JAN2025 – Quote of the Day
A few years ago a delusive optimism was creeping over the minds of men. There was a tendency to push the belief in the moral victories of civilisation to an excess which now seems incredible. It was esteemed heresy to distrust anybody, or to act as if any evil still remained in human nature. At home we were exhorted to show “our confidence in our countrymen,” by confiding the guidance of our policy to the ignorant, and the expenditure of our wealth to the needy. Abroad we were invited to believe that commerce had triumphed where Christianity had failed, and that exports and imports had banished war from the earth. And generally we were encouraged to congratulate ourselves that we were permanently lifted up from the mire of passion and prejudice in which our forefathers had wallowed. The last fifteen years have been one long disenchantment; and the American civil war is the culmination of the process.
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil