2011/05/17

Simplicity

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. 
- Aristotle

2011/05/15

Wise men

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. 
- Plato

2011/05/07

Credo ut intelligam

I do not seek to understand so that I may believe, but I believe so that I may understand.
- Saint Anselm of Canterbury

Nature

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. 
- Aristotle

2011/05/05

سوگند سخت

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2011/05/03

Poetry & History

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. 
- Aristotle

2011/05/02

Tradition


         
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
- Sir Winston Churchill