Anna B
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Anna B
Almost all English translations of Rumi are not Rumi, especially those by Coleman Barks
It is the highest thing. Jesus agrees, proclaiming himself at John 14:6 to be the way, the truth and the life.
Crispin Sartwell • Truth Is Real and Philosophers Must Return Their Attention to It
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
So what would a prose literature devoted to illness sound like? Perhaps it could only exist in the form of the essay, of which genre Woolf’s opening sentence is both an elegant part-for-whole and a less than obvious parody.
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
how was it possible to catch up with leisured women, who had been reading steadily from childhood?
E. M. Forster • Howards End
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