Anna B
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Anna B
Plato having anointed truth as the goal of philosophy, the goal of human life. ‘Assuredly we must be bold to speak what is true, above all when our discourse is upon truth
Crispin Sartwell • Truth Is Real and Philosophers Must Return Their Attention to It
The sentence has allured us a long way, but I’m not certain I follow, not even sure what “this” consists of, never mind the “infinitely more.”
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.” - George Orwell
The essay ends in a kind of dream—with the image of a plush red curtain clasped and crushed in grief. And we’re happy to follow Woolf there, in part, because of that dash in her opening sentence, which denotes a passage from the dream-fugue of sickness, depression, and undirected reading into the dirigible madness of writing.
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
truth is a problem now for everyone, if the idea seems empty or useless in ‘the era of social media’, ‘science denialism’, ‘conspiracy theories’ and suchlike, maybe that just means that ‘everyone’ has caught up to where philosophy was in 1922.
Crispin Sartwell • Truth Is Real and Philosophers Must Return Their Attention to It
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Loneliness arises when thought is divorced from reality, when the common world has been replaced by the tyranny of coercive logical demands.
Samantha Rose Hill • Hannah Arendt enjoyed her solitude, but she believed that loneliness could make people susceptible to totalitarianism
#mindfullness #spirituality #respect
Learning to write comes from reading, both the work of published writers and of our peers, and from using one’s powers of insight and creativity to analyze what one reads and figure out why it works when it does and what is missing when it doesn’t. This is where knowledge is gained, and it’s slow and frustrating, nebulous, diffuse, much less direct
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