Daily Quote
A philosopher's thought, every day, unpacked by Albert & Alberta
20 Sept 2026
“What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
19 Sept 2026
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
— Marcus Aurelius
18 Sept 2026
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
— Albert Camus
17 Sept 2026
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
— Carl Jung
16 Sept 2026
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
15 Sept 2026
“We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
— Anaïs Nin
14 Sept 2026
“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.”
— Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
13 Sept 2026
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
12 Sept 2026
“The vessel that floats on the river thinks the river is moving, while the shore stands still.”
— Dōgen
11 Sept 2026
“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
— Carl Jung
10 Sept 2026
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
— Robertson Davies
9 Sept 2026
“A stone is broken by the last blow of the hammer. This doesn't mean the first blow was useless.”
— Chinese Proverb
8 Sept 2026
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
— Carl Jung
7 Sept 2026
“The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.”
— Zhuangzi
6 Sept 2026
“The map appears to us more real than the land.”
— D. H. Lawrence
5 Sept 2026
“We shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us.”
— Winston Churchill
4 Sept 2026
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
3 Sept 2026
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
— Marcel Proust