Vital Trivia
A place for all the trivia I find interesting or important in this or that way
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
به دلت
کز دلت بهدر نکنم
سختتر زین مخواه سوگندی
ــ سعدی شیرینسخن
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
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