2025 – timelesswisdom

The Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” – The Marginalian

“Day by day I am approaching the goal which I apprehend but cannot describe,” Ludwig van Beethoven (December 16, 1770–March […]

“There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet, which fails

“No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life,” Nietzsche

“Spiritual health and material well-being are not enemies: they are natural allies,” wrote the economist E.F. Schumacher in his timeless

By Maria Popova Predating both Arabian Nights and the Grimm fairy tales by centuries, the fables of Aesop, an ancient

“God is Change,” Octavia Butler wrote, wresting the poetic truth from the scientific fact that entropy is the ruling law

“Man, do not exalt yourself above the animals,” Dostoyevsky admonished in his largehearted case for animal rights. A quarter century

“What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?” the Proust Questionnaire asked David Bowie. “Living in fear.” Partway

“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust