A commonplace book: an old-fashioned literary diary for recording interesting items from reading you've done. I use mine to record snippets from reading, conversation and life in general. (The early 2003 entries are from a period some years ago -- before the blog age -- when I tried an online commonplace book as a straight web page.)
Monday, June 02, 2025
Monday, February 03, 2025
Sunday, January 19, 2025
The Seven Virtues
Charity, Faith, and Hope. Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, and Temperance.
Dante, The Divine Comedy
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
I wanted all things to make sense,
So we'd be happy instead of tense.
From Nice, Nice, Very Nice, Ambrosia
Sunday, November 27, 2022
Thursday, June 16, 2022
The nations were not sane—rational, composed, aware, but not sane. In each nation, the arsenal included potent distrust and even hatred.
Greg Bear, Eons
Friday, June 03, 2022
All women ... were calculating—even if their calculations took place somewhere south of their conscious awareness. All women weighed and measured; did not always listen to the results rationally, but made efforts in that direction that most men I knew could not duplicate or understand.
Greg Bear, Legacy
Friday, February 18, 2022
We must not expect to find reason anywhere in Nature, but only the evidence of will!
Pliny the Elder, Natural History
Sunday, April 12, 2020
Montaigne
Friday, February 28, 2020
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (VIII,52)
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
For if everything that is were unlimited, there would not be anything of such a character that it could be recognized.
Philolaus (a Pythagorean)
Tuesday, December 03, 2019
Thursday, August 22, 2019
Euripides, The Trojan Women (per Philip Wheelwright, The PreSocratics
Friday, September 07, 2018
Michel de Montaigne
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Natural Teleology
See also: http://everythingrum.blogspot.com/2018/01/if-there-was-cosmological-design-what.html
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Thomas Nagel, Mind & Cosmos
Friday, May 19, 2017
Thursday, December 31, 2015
Thucydides (Book Four), The History of the Peloponnesian War