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Cringe is just honesty before it hardens into style.

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

Contemplatio , from which “contemplation” derives, originally meant to be with ( con- ) the templum , the sacred space. To contemplate something difficult is not to pass over it quickly, but to dwell in its presence, to let it work on you.

“University” comes from universitas in the Latin phrase universitas magistrorum et scholarium —a community of teachers and scholars—suggesting that a university is a whole, a totality where minds were formed through exposure to the vast and contradictory totality of thought.

“If I am worth something later, I'm worth something now. For wheat is still wheat, even if people think it's grass at the beginning.”

- Vincent van Gogh

what a metaphor: in the face of uncertain tomorrows, you'll always have yesterday to rely on.