Gorokhova: and we keep pretending to believe them April 20, 2021 at 8:30am
Thucydides: moderation was held to be a cloak for unmanliness April 20, 2021 at 8:16am
Hesse: I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world April 7, 2021 at 10:31am
Williams: Contemplation, in other words, is a deeper appropriation of the vulnerability of the self in the midst of the language and transactions of the world April 6, 2021 at 9:30pm
Camus: I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. April 4, 2021 at 1:53pm
Quasimodo: and suddenly it’s evening January 13, 2021 at 9:15pm
Yeats: Surely the Second Coming is at hand. December 24, 2020 at 8:40pm
Bukowski- Find what you love and let it kill you December 24, 2020 at 7:47pm
Woolf: The whole world is a work of art December 24, 2020 at 7:42pm
Camus: Our only justification is to speak up for those who cannot do so. November 5, 2020 at 12:40am
Walden: we only crave reality. October 19, 2020 at 12:37am
Jaccottet: All I have been able to do is to walk and go on walking October 16, 2020 at 8:35pm
Beckett: I’ll go on October 14, 2020 at 6:00pm
Goethe: Die into becoming! September 7, 2020 at 2:47pm
Nietzsche: You shall love peace as a means to new wars. May 27, 2020 at 5:49pm
Nietzsche: May your sorrow be love for the Overhuman: thus may you justify your own living on! May 27, 2020 at 5:49pm
Kafka: in the end, it can be calculated in advance and is incorporated into the ritual. May 20, 2020 at 3:00pm
King, Jr.: Let us stand with a greater determination. May 18, 2020 at 9:17pm
Kierkegaard: the lily and the bird are joy, because by silence and unconditional obedience they are entirely present to themselves in being today. May 18, 2020 at 9:17pm
Emerson: Meantime within man is the soul of the whole May 18, 2020 at 9:17pm
Pound: That I lost my center fighting the world March 10, 2020 at 3:43pm
Rumi: meet them at the door laughing and invite them in. February 25, 2020 at 5:31pm
Thoreau: but what we have to stand on tiptoe to read and devote our most alert and wakeful hours to. February 18, 2020 at 12:43am
Nietzsche: You must first gain victory over yourselves if you want to gain any sort of victory over the opponents of your wealth. February 18, 2020 at 12:09am
Russell: The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate, might be set forth as follows: February 16, 2020 at 6:14pm
Yeats: We sat together at one summer’s end February 16, 2020 at 6:13pm
Scanlon: Working out the terms of moral justification is an unending task. February 9, 2020 at 12:28pm
Aurelius: He does not realize that it is sufficient to concentrate solely on the divinity within. January 17, 2020 at 1:20am
Rumi: God’s silence is necessary, because of humankind’s faintheartedness October 6, 2019 at 6:43pm
Wagner: The poet’s task is… to read his dreams and comprehend October 1, 2019 at 12:11pm
Schopenhauer: the individual human being sits quietly, supported by and trusting in the principium individuationis October 1, 2019 at 12:04pm
Emerson: Find me, and turn thy back on heaven. September 19, 2019 at 8:33pm
Nietzsche: Then, suddenly, friend, one turned into two September 3, 2019 at 4:43pm
Shelly: I shunned the face of man; all sound of joy or complacency was torture to me; solitude was my only consolation—deep, dark, deathlike solitude. August 30, 2019 at 6:46pm
Mattis: A polemicist’s role is not sufficient for a leader August 30, 2019 at 4:18pm
Moore: which is to say… August 30, 2019 at 3:50pm
Kafka: The Guardian August 20, 2019 at 5:31pm
Wiklund: What Should I Draw? August 16, 2019 at 5:53pm
Wiklund: Crazy, how good attention feels, coming from you August 16, 2019 at 5:48pm
Goethe: Here sit I, forming mortals after my image; a race resembling me, to suffer, to weep, to enjoy, to be glad, and thee to scorn as I! August 15, 2019 at 12:09pm
Montaigne: I thicken and toughen my skin daily through reasoning August 12, 2019 at 9:44pm
Nietzsche: a human being should attain satisfaction with himself August 12, 2019 at 6:18pm
Czapski: a trial every creative being must endure. August 10, 2019 at 6:31pm
Maharaj: Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence. August 9, 2019 at 11:48pm
Goethe: The best is the deep quiet… August 9, 2019 at 9:21pm
Shakespeare: Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow August 9, 2019 at 8:48pm
Nietzsche: The genius of the heart… August 9, 2019 at 6:28pm
Nietzsche: as if man were not a goal but only a way, an episode, a bridge, a great promise. August 9, 2019 at 6:25pm
Annamayya: right now you should be glad August 8, 2019 at 3:45pm
Cummings: love is more thicker than forget August 8, 2019 at 2:33pm
Goethe: I am the spirit of perpetual negation August 8, 2019 at 12:33am
Kipling: And so hold on when there is nothing in you except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’ August 7, 2019 at 9:13pm
Wallace: A top athlete’s beauty is next to impossible to describe directly. Or to evoke. August 5, 2019 at 7:39pm
Wilde: that you had not yet been able to acquire the “Oxford temper” in intellectual matters August 5, 2019 at 6:59pm
Camus: In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. August 5, 2019 at 6:41pm
Kafka: it confuses me so much that I cannot deal with life August 4, 2019 at 11:40pm
Cummings: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world August 4, 2019 at 7:45pm
Rilke: embrace your solitude and love it August 3, 2019 at 10:27pm
Nietzsche: That I be banished from every truth, mere fool! Mere poet! July 31, 2019 at 5:04pm
Blake: Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. July 30, 2019 at 10:59pm
Beauvoir: Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms July 28, 2019 at 11:28pm
Milosz: Love July 28, 2019 at 10:23pm
Camus: Intelligence is the free passion attached to truth July 23, 2019 at 6:51pm
Havel: It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart. July 20, 2019 at 11:40pm
MLK, Jr.: What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive and that love without power is sentimental and anemic. July 20, 2019 at 9:47pm
Camus: seek the respite… in the very thick of the battle. July 19, 2019 at 11:16pm
Rilke: It is that striving for which all other striving is merely preparation. July 19, 2019 at 11:07pm
Emerson: The Transparent Eye July 19, 2019 at 10:54pm
Brooks: let the terrifying longing crowd out everything else July 8, 2019 at 5:43pm
Sarton: There is no place more intimate than the spirit alone July 8, 2019 at 5:38pm
Goethe: instantly the gloom and madness which hung over me are dispersed, and I breathe freely again. July 8, 2019 at 5:38pm
Kipling: no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself November 21, 2018 at 7:37pm
Bukowski: Their brains are stuffed with cotton November 13, 2018 at 5:38pm
Beauvoir: Freedom, Transcendence & Constraints November 12, 2018 at 4:34pm
Dostoevsky: cherish that ecstasy October 10, 2018 at 12:19am
Thomas: Do Not Go Gently October 9, 2018 at 11:38pm
Bukowski: The Man with the Beautiful Eyes September 24, 2018 at 12:22am
Hirshfield: Optimism September 23, 2018 at 12:32am
Dickinson: We Grow Accustomed to the Dark September 23, 2018 at 12:24am
Fredrik deBoer on the Culture of Contemporary Media September 13, 2018 at 2:39pm
Hemingway: you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry September 5, 2018 at 1:08am
Wallace: how removed from what’s really important—motive, feeling, belief. September 5, 2018 at 12:29am
Merton on Solitude August 19, 2018 at 2:06pm
King: Where the Nights… July 17, 2018 at 10:27am
Vintage Danish Guide to Sexuality July 10, 2018 at 2:37pm
e.e. cummings July 5, 2018 at 3:20pm
Simon on Kubrick’s film Paths of Glory July 4, 2018 at 6:27pm
susan sontag on love July 4, 2018 at 2:44pm
Dostoevsky: Only two people? June 19, 2018 at 9:34pm
Rumi: I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there June 17, 2018 at 6:10pm
Bourdain on Kissinger June 13, 2018 at 3:41pm
Woolf: if we look down at something very small and close and familiar, we shall find sympathy. June 13, 2018 at 3:31pm
Camus: we must march toward these two goals June 8, 2018 at 12:52am
Kirchin: To Specialize or to Flourish? June 7, 2018 at 7:30pm
Keguro: What is the relation? April 22, 2018 at 11:40pm
Tools February 2, 2018 at 4:13pm
Le Monde’s 1996 Interview with the Obamas September 3, 2017 at 12:00am
Emerson, Nietzsche, and Naturalistic Ethics May 23, 2017 at 12:00am
Engagement March 22, 2017 at 12:00am