I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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Monthly Archives: November 2023
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Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer’s ink.
~ Albert Camus
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
~ Anton Chekhov
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The artist has a special task and duty: the task of reminding men of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.
~ Lewis Mumford
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Critical philosophy implies above all historical criticism. It dissolves the rigid, unhistorical, natural appearance of social institutions; it reveals their historical origins.
~ György Lukács
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
~ Toni Morrison
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National Gallery Singapore
turns 8 today
The National Gallery of Singapore was opened on this day – November 24 – in 2015.
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The battle for telecommuting is a proxy for a deeper unrest. If employees lose remote work, the last highly visible, virus-prompted workplace experiment, the window for future transformation might slam shut. The tragedy of this moment, however, is how this reform movement lacks good ideas about what else to demand.
~ Cal Newport via The New Yorker
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A university is a community, but it is a community of a special kind, a community devoted to inquiry. It exists so that its members may inquire into truths of all sorts. Its presence marks our commitment to the idea that somewhere in society there must be an organization in which anything can be studied or questioned—not merely safe and established things but difficult and inflammatory things, the most troublesome questions of politics and war, of sex and morals, of property and national loyalty.
~ Richard Hofstadter
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Claude Monet was born
on this day in 1840
Claude Monet – the French painter – was born on this day – November 14, 1840 – in Paris, France.
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