“It is not a man’s duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong, …but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and not…to give it practically his support” – Henry David Thoreau A justRead More →
It was during one of his walks in Sils im Engadin, near lake Silvaplana, in Switzerland, that the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche had what he believed was the greatest thought he had ever conceived. He was walking by the lake when he suddenly stopped near a massive rock and hadRead More →
“How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June…. If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the pictureRead More →
“It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passion.” [1] – Edmund Burke All the greatest natural wonders like the dizzying height of a mountain, the grueling cliffs, the starry sky and the boundless stretch of the ocean have always provoked anRead More →