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Daily Archives: January 25, 2025
Five American Universities
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Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Campus Life at the
University of Oxford
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Franz Kafka’s stories are Jewish the way the Old Testament is Jewish. That is, it’s also Christian, and it speaks even more generally to the human condition, and to a great deal besides that.
~ Judith Shulevitz via The Atlantic
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One of the most distressing tasks of a university president is to pretend that the protest and outrage of each new generation of undergraduates is really fresh and meaningful. In fact, it is one of the most predictable controversies that we know. The participants go through a ritual of hackneyed complaints, almost as ancient as academe, while believing that what is said is radical and new.
~ Clark Kerr
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
~ George Orwell
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Campus Life at
California State University, East Bay
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Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of great distress.
~ Milan Kundera
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Campus Life at
the University of York
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Our very idea of productivity is premised on the idea of producing something new, whereas we do not tend to see maintenance and care as productive in the same way.
~ Jenny Odell
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