The civility which money will purchase is rarely extended to those who have none.
~ Charles Dickens
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Monthly Archives: October 2024
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To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
~ Confucius
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It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself.
~ Dorothy Catherine Fontana
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There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.
~ O. A. Battista
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Campus Life at
the University of Utah
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As the cult of intersectionality implodes before our eyes, it is time for higher education to commit itself to earnestly engaging new ideas and respectfully participating in big debates on a whole host of issues. Universities must reject victimology, celebrate individual agency, and engage the truth with epistemological modesty. Institutions ought to embrace open inquiry. Education done rightly should be defined by big-hearted debates about important issues.
~ Ben Sasse via The Atlantic
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Book Recommendation
My Dark Places
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The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.
~ John Lanchester
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Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.
~ David Foster Wallace
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The characteristics of our romantics are to understand everything, to see everything and to see it often incomparably more clearly than our most realistic minds see it; to refuse to accept anyone or anything, but at the same time not to despise anything.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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