Nicolas Poussin born 1594.
Sir Christopher Marlowe died 1593.
Sir David Wilkie died 1841.
Hugo Münsterberg born 1863.
In every act of ours, in every feeling and every volition and every
thought, we are conscious of a self which expresses its aims and
meanings. Every idea of ours points beyond itself, every volition
binds us in decision, and every experience gets meaning by our
attitudes. The most immediate task which life demands from us in the
understanding of ourselves and of others is, therefore, to interpret
our ideas, to draw the consequences of our will, to appreciate the
attitudes, to measure them by higher standards.
--Hugo Münsterberg.
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.
--Genesis 1. 26.
My Creator, I pray that I may not only have the desire to know life,
but the assurance to live it. Help me to understand that my earthly
possessions are not the measure of my life, nor my body the boundary
of my living. May I reach for the high standards that are free,
without limit, to all. Amen.