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But there remains also the truth that every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning; this beginning is the promise, the only “message” which the end can ever produce. Beginning, before it becomes a historical event, is the supreme capacity of man; politically, it is identical with man’s freedom. Initium ut esset homo creatus est— “that
... See moreWisdom lies in discernment, and utopianism and nostalgia alike are ways of abandoning discernment.
Alan Jacobs • Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
it does involve a kind of close reading, a careful attention to the forms that organize texts, bodies, and institutions.
Caroline Levine • Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network
the life of thought, holding a position is like that: there’s a proper firmness of belief that lies between the extremes of rigidity and flaccidity.
Alan Jacobs • How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
we need both “effective public disapproval” and “the influence of a preponderant professional condemnation.” I offer this book as a springboard to both.
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young • Wrong
The anthropologist David Graeber once wrote: “The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” The same is true of the Internet.