December 30, 2013
Quote of the Day
"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
– Bertrand Russell
About Bertrand Russell
British philosopher Bertrand Russell was greatly responsible for the shift toward logical analysis among philosophers; he introduced rigorous scientific methodology to the field and was best known for his books Principia Mathematica and The Principles of Mathematics. He was born in 1872 to an aristocratic English family but raised by a strict paternal grandmother after his parents died young. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. Albert Einstein collaborated with him on a manifesto calling for nuclear disarmament. He died in 1970.
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December 28, 2013
Quote of the Day
"The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities."
– Vic Braden
About Vic Braden
American tennis coach Vic Braden won the United States Tennis Association's award for Contributing Most to Tennis in America. He was born in 1929 in Michigan. He founded three tennis colleges that bear his name, which are in California, Utah, and Florida; wrote six books on the sport; and appeared on such TV shows as the Today show, Good Morning America, and 20/20. A clinical psychologist as well as a sports coach, he has spent the past decades exploring the mind-body connection.
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December 27, 2013
Quote of the Day
"Man can only become what he is able to consciously imagine."
– Dane Rudhyar
About Dane Rudhyar
Dane Rudhyar was a respected modernist composer as well as a pioneering modern psychological astrologer. He was born in Paris in 1895 as Daniel Chennevière and immigrated to the United States in the early 1900's. His music utilizes dissonant harmony; he claimed to be inspired by the cadence of speech. His work influenced a group of composers known as the ultramodernists. He also wrote a number of astrology books, including the seminal Astrology of Personality. He died in 1985.
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