Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
the senses never have much chance, against the power of doctrine.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Walker Percy • A Confederacy of Dunces
preference for personal integrity is based on the moral absurdity
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
“Aristotle said that happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.”
Richard Powers • Playground: A Novel
The very best way to describe Scott Peterson’s demeanor is that it looks like he’s constantly posing for a photograph nobody is taking.
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
This goes to the heart of Weil’s enterprise: the corollary to another’s needs is our obligation to recognize them, regardless of conditions.
Robert Zaretsky • The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
his fundamental conviction has remained constant: the horrors of late twentieth-century life, whether Nazi, communist, racist, nationalist, or utilitarian in expression, are the products of defective concepts of the human person.