All Fools Eve

                                                             Bruegel the Younger.

Carlos Simon: be still and know

SOCIOLOGY - Auguste Comte

Epicurean Contentment

 

Those who seek many things are always lacking; blessed is the one with whom the god has been stingy, providing just enough... (from Horace, Odes, Bk. III, xvi).

Anyone in this world with half a loaf/And a roof over his head/Is neither Master nor Slave; say to him: "Be happy always,"/for he possesses a world of happiness. 

(from Omar Khayyam, Ruba'iyyat, tr. slightly amended from Avery and Heath-Stubbs, # 179). 

Plato's Song

Society of Friends of Epicurus: A Philosophical Community

Eikas - The Epicurean Feast of the Twentieth

Walter Pater: Conclusion to Studies in the History of the Renaissance

                                                                         Here.

No. 16, 1949

 

It Doesn't Have To Be This Way (feat. Brandon Scott)

The Plain Sense of Things

                                                         Was Van Gogh religious?

Persian Elegance

 

Water

                                         Photo credit: Nicole Franzen.

The Plain Sense of Things

                                                     Poem by Wallace Stevens.

Horace

                                                             In Our Time.

The Rock

 

                The starting point of the human and the end,
                That in which space itself is contained, the gate
                To the enclosure, day, the things illumined

                By day, night and that which night illumines,
                Night and its midnight-minting fragrances,
                Night's hymn of the rock, as in a vivid sleep.

                                        ~ Wallace Stevens