Pick a topic, anything. Become obsessed. Not to be graded or read. Not to get ahead. Just for the thrill of it. Write a thesis, do the research, produce the paper. Watch lectures. Take notes. Make PowerPoints no one will ever see. Make homework for yourself, like you used to. Give yourself a deadline in one... See more
‘…keep realizing that one key maxim to remember in light of human progress is: keep the baby, chuck the bathwater. Figuring out what exactly the baby is…’
It had been several weeks with this man, who had already taken pig-iron to my sense of direction. I took his ideas and mulled them in my mouth- dry wine; tasting tannin, inferring submission. Nothing he said made sense and I hung on it, this giant muscular child, this untrustable man, wearing himself on his skin.
Yes, it 's true! The head which was creating, living with the highest life of art, which had realised and grown used to the highest needs of the spirit, that head has already been cut off from my shoulders. There remain the memory and the images created but not yet incarnated by me. They will lacerate me, it is true! But there remains in me my... See more
He wanted to be at the boundary of the war (physically and emotionally), because it is at the boundary that essential truths reveal themselves—both in the mathematical and existential sense.