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The dream of a Liberal (arts) education—which is the scaled, democratic form of the Keatsian ideal of negative capability—cannot hold up when liberalism itself is held to be suspect.
Zohar Atkins • The Liberal Arts Are Dying Because Liberalism is Dying
No system of thought can contain the fullness of human experience.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
hope is the correct response to the strange, often terrifying miracle of consciousness.
John Green • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
In some sense, the fear of losing one’s mind is a mark of one’s sanity.
Sonu Shamdasani • Lament of the Dead
Heidegger
Víctor Martínez • 3 cards
Though I should front an object for a lifetime I should only see what it concerned me to see.
Henry David Thoreau, Damion Searls, • The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861
"Let your life speak." I
Parker J. Palmer • Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
John Smith, U.S.A.” He went on to develop his view of himself in some detail: He is the man who doesn’t know much, nor thinks that he knows much. He starts out with certain ambitions but he gradually accumulates obligations as he goes along, and they continually increase. They begin with his inherited family, and grow with the family that results f
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