Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Author Archives: Gareth Antigua
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The dead govern the living.
~ Auguste Comte
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The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being.
~ Toni Morrison
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Midday Music Fix
Pat Benatar – Shadows Of The Night
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In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity of personality. But in an age of anxiety, an age of her morality and personal isolation, courage is a sine qua non.
~ Rollo May
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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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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.
~ T.S. Eliot
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It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academism.
~ Mark Rothko
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I simply wanted to go to a place that didn’t know who I was.
~ Herta Müller
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