Reads tagged with “public domain”
Étienne Léopold Trouvelot’s Stunning 19th-Century Astronomical Drawings of Celestial Objects and Phenomena
The splendor of the cosmos in a trailblazing marriage of art and science more than a century before modern astrophotography.
Walt Whitman’s Advice on Living a Vibrant and Rewarding Life
“Love the earth and sun and the animals… re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul…”
How Leo Tolstoy Found His Purpose: The Beloved Author on Personal Growth and the Meaning of Human Existence
“That which one has set oneself to do, one should not relinquish on the grounds of absence of mind or distraction.”
Cicero on the Envy as a Counterintuitive Gateway to Compassion and Its Power as a Tuning Fork for Our Motivation
“Wisdom is an acquaintance with all divine and human affairs, and a knowledge of the cause of everything.”
Tchaikovsky on Depression and Finding Beauty Amid the Wreckage of the Soul
“Life is beautiful in spite of everything! … There are many thorns, but the roses are there too.”
Abraham Lincoln’s Tough-Love Letter to His Step-Brother About Laziness and Work Ethic
“You say you would almost give your place in Heaven for $70 or $80. Then you value your place in Heaven very cheaply.”
The Will to Doubt: Bertrand Russell on Free Thought and Our Only Effective Self-Defense Against Propaganda
“The protection of minorities is vitally important; and even the most orthodox of us may find himself in a minority some day, so that we all have an interest in restraining the tyranny of majorities.”
A Largeness of Contemplation: Bertrand Russell on Intuition, the Intellect, and the Nature of Time
“Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.”
Creative Magic and What Makes a Great Writer: Joseph Conrad’s Beautiful Tribute to Henry James
“All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind.”
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