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Aristotle got this right, I think: “Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history [...]
April 25, 2012
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I came across this quote today by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German Lutheran minister and theologian who was executed for his open opposition to [...]
April 13, 2012
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“In short, the economic arrangements of the western world proved to be too expensive for most of the world. And the western world will [...]
April 12, 2012
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Milan Kundera is an excellent novelist and I find that every time I read him I find human beings a little less mysterious and a little more [...]
April 6, 2012
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I think what I love the most about this quote is that it expresses a mindset which runs completely counter to contemporary culture and [...]
March 30, 2012
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“I don’t know why, but lately the forms of things appear to me with time/ One of their visible dimensions.” -Robinson Jeffers (from [...]
March 7, 2012
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“In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand [...]
February 16, 2012
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“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” -Henry David Thoreau
January 31, 2012
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“All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament.” -Isaiah Berlin This is why I think it is wise to be plural in [...]
January 21, 2012
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“Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a [...]
January 16, 2012
