:::
Monthly Archives: April 2025
Campus Life at the
Quote, Unquote
We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.
~ Milan Kundera
:::
Quote, Unquote
There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
:::
Five American Universities
to follow on Facebook
Campus Life at
La Trobe University
Campus Life at
Deakin University
Quote, Unquote
In some ways, we’ve just reestablished the old hierarchy rooted in wealth and social status—only the new elites possess greater hubris, because they believe that their status has been won by hard work and talent rather than by birth. The sense that they “deserve” their success for having earned it can make them feel more entitled to the fruits of it, and less called to the spirit of noblesse oblige.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
:::
Campus Life at the
University of Manchester
Quote, Unquote
I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am.
~ Caspar David Friedrich
:::
Quote, Unquote
I can write faster than anyone who can write better, and I can write better than anyone who can write faster.
~ A. J. Liebling
:::