The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don’t just go away, they are only postponed to someone else’s advantage.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Monthly Archives: April 2025
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You can’t measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
~ Milan Kundera
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When policy makers talk about higher education, from the president all the way down, they talk exclusively in terms of math and science. Journalists and pundits—some of whom were humanities majors and none of whom are nurses or engineers—never tire of lecturing the young about the necessity of thinking prudently when choosing a course of study, the naïveté of wanting to learn things just because you’re curious about them.
~ William Deresiewicz
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Understanding the limitations of human beings is the beginning of wisdom.
~ Thomas Sowell
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Campus Life at
the University of Akron
Campus Life at
the University of Delaware
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“Man has an invincible inclination to allow himself to be deceived and is, as it were, enchanted with happiness when the rhapsodist tells him epic fables as if they were true, or when the actor in the theater acts more royally than any real king.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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Campus Life at
the University of Leeds
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Faced with a growing number of chores, you push what you can onto other people’s plate, and they respond in kind. The result is an onslaught of ad hoc assignments, whipsawing across inboxes and chat channels, that culminates in a shared state of permanent overload.
~ Cal Newport via The Atlantic
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Happy Shōwa Day
Wishing all of our readers in Japan a Happy Shōwa Day – which honors the birthday of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) each year on April 29.
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