Sunday 30 January 2011

Thought for the day

Our thought for this Sunday morning comes from the Pre-Socratic philosopher Xenophanes of Colophon (570-475BC), who first voiced this insight piece of post-prandial wisdom:

_Quote Among men he is to be praised who after drinking produces noble thoughts . . . “

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sorry, off topic, but suggestion for posting to your blog? Cool video visualization of Obama "budget cuts":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk_jToBbpWU

the drunken watchman said...

how prescient!

how could this dude have known about Waikato 2500 years ago!?

Peter Cresswell said...

I see what you mean: you're referring of course to his notion that "the first principle and basic nature of all things is water . . . "