What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
~ Søren Kierkegaard
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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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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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it, that we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.
~ Will Rogers
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By going out a few minutes sooner or later, by stopping to speak with a friend at a corner, by meeting this man or that, or by turning down this street instead of the other, we may let slip some great occasion of good, or avoid some impending evil, by which the whole current of our lives would have been changed. There is no possible solution to the dark enigma but the one word, “Providence”.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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There is no inquiry which is not finally reducible to a question of numbers.
~ Auguste Comte
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If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
~ Søren Kierkegaard
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We have a crisis of leadership in America because our overwhelming power and wealth, earned under earlier generations of leaders, made us complacent, and for too long we have been training leaders who only know how to keep the routine going. Who can answer questions, but don’t know how to ask them. Who can fulfill goals, but don’t know how to set them. Who think about how to get things done, but not whether they’re worth doing in the first place.
~ William Deresiewicz
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You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
~ Will Rogers
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The progress of the individual mind is not only an illustration, but an indirect evidence of that of the general mind.
~ Auguste Comte
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