The Daily Owl 3-18-2014 17. March 2014 The Daily Owl The Daily Owl (0) Useful fictions are only useful if we don't know they're fictions.ShareTweetUseful fictions are only useful if we don't know they're fictions. [More] RSS | Podcasts | Twitter | Facebook | Kindle | Gear
The Daily Owl 3-3-2014 3. March 2014 The Daily Owl The Daily Owl (0) A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight (Davies)ShareTweetA truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight (Davies) [More] RSS | Podcasts | Twitter | Facebook | Kindle | Gear
The Daily Owl 2-5-2014 5. February 2014 The Daily Owl The Daily Owl (0) The Gods of the Copybook HeadingsShareTweetThe Gods of the Copybook Headings [More] RSS | Podcasts | Twitter | Facebook | Kindle | Gear
The Daily Owl 1. February 2014 The Daily Owl The Daily Owl (0) All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. (Thurber)ShareTweetAll human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. (Thurber) [More] RSS | Podcasts | Twitter | Facebook | Kindle | Gear
The Daily Owl 1-29-2014 29. January 2014 The Daily Owl The Daily Owl (0) Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. (Santayana)ShareTweetFanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. (Santayana) [More] RSS | Podcasts | Twitter | Facebook | Kindle | Gear
The Daily Owl 1-25-2014 25. January 2014 The Daily Owl The Daily Owl (0) All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. (Aristotle)ShareTweetAll paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. (Aristotle) [More] RSS | Podcasts | Twitter | Facebook | Kindle | Gear
The Daily Owl 1-15-2014 14. January 2014 The Daily Owl The Daily Owl (0) The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness. (Malraux)ShareTweetThe greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness. (Malraux) [More] RSS | Podcasts | Twitter | Facebook | Kindle | Gear
The Daily Owl 12-30-2013 30. December 2013 The Daily Owl The Daily Owl (0) The threat of death is the most common symbol for anxiety, but most of us in our ‘civilized’ era do not find ourselves looking into the barrel of a gun or in other ways specifically threatened with death very often. The great bulk of our anxiety comes when some value we hold essential to our existence as selves is threatened. (May)ShareTweetThe threat of death is the most common symbol for anxiety, but most of us in our ‘civilized’ era do not find ourselves looking into the barrel of a gun or in other ways specifically threatened with death very often. The great bulk of our anxiety comes when some value we hold essential to our existence as selves is threatened. (May) [More] RSS | Podcasts | Twitter | Facebook | Kindle | Gear
The Daily Owl 11-19-2013 19. November 2013 The Daily Owl The Daily Owl (0) Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. (Lewis)ShareTweetOf all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. (Lewis) [More] RSS | Podcasts | Twitter | Facebook | Kindle | Gear
The Daily Owl 10-25-2013 25. October 2013 The Daily Owl The Daily Owl (0) Provided we have the right type of rigor, we need randomness, mess, adventures, uncertainty, self-discovery, near-traumatic episodes--all these things that make life worth living--compared to the structured, ineffective life of an empty-suit CEO with a pre-set schedule and an alarm clock. (Taleb )ShareTweetProvided we have the right type of rigor, we need randomness, mess, adventures, uncertainty, self-discovery, near-traumatic episodes--all these things that make life worth living--compared to the structured, ineffective life of an empty-suit CEO with a pre-set schedule and an alarm clock. (Taleb ) [More] RSS | Podcasts | Twitter | Facebook | Kindle | Gear