Clouds Are A Dreamer's Best Friend

John Constable (1777-1837) - Cloud Study, 1822


'One symptom of impending nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.'

Bertrand Russell

Criminal Injustice

Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) - The Third of May, 1808


'War does not determine who is right - only who is left.'

Bertrand Russell

Bill's Bounty

Willem van Aelst (1627-1683) - Still Life with Fruit, c. 1660


"The sun, with all those plants revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."

Galileo Galilei

"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."

Francis Bacon (Novum Organum)

"I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite."

Bertrand Russell

"And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything."

William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

"What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous that we sweat."

Seneca (Letters to Lucilius)

Don't Put The Blame On Mame

Michelangelo di Ludovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) - Adam and Eve (The Sistine Chapel), 1509-1512


"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."

William Shakespeare

"Sin is geographical."

Bertrand Russell

"Praise is the bait of sin."

Plato

"To sin is a human business, but to justify sins is a devilish business."

Leo Tolstoy

"Other men's sins are before our eyes, but our own are behind our backs."

Seneca