“We are too apt to attribute to accident or occult influence that which we cannot understand.” — George Gore, The Art of Scientific Discovery
Quote of the Day
“The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes.” — Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
Los Marolles
Quote of the Day
“Messages cease to be messages when nobody can read them.” — Gregory Bateson, “Every Schoolboy Knows,” Mind and Nature
Quote of the Day
“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but — mainly — to ourselves.” — Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
Phlegm – Bruegel in Black and White

Phlegm‘s tribute to Pieter Bruegel the Elder‘s Seven Deadly Sins.
December 30, 2025
Mont des Arts 28,
Brussels, Belgium
Quote of the Day
“There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis, by a pretence of its dangerous consequences to religion and morality.” — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Quote of the Day
“He that falls in love with himself, will have no Rivals.” — Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack (1739)
Le Scorpion

A mural of Enrico Marini and Stephen Desberg‘s Le Scorpion.
December 30, 2025
Treurenberg 14,
Brussels, Belgium
Quote of the Day
“What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe.” — Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn’t So







