evanovich

You can no longer make students do the reading or the writing. So what’s left? Only this: give them work they want to do. And help them want to do it. What, again, is education? The non-coercive rearranging of desire.

Within five years, it will make little sense for scholars of history to keep producing monographs in the traditional mold—nobody will... See more

Before jumping into a very competitive game I think you should look at the winners of that game and decide if you want to be like them first

Life is a mystery because we are imbedded in what might be called

the human dimension

(a context determined by a highly specific and exclusive scenario). Strength is necessary to bear the weight of a burden of such not in fighting but surviving the relinquishment to the abyss (

).

Intelligence is a form of friendship with the world. It can’t be cultivated out of fear of it.