To capitalist logic, which thrives on myopia and dissatisfaction, there may indeed be something dangerous about something as pedestrian as doing nothing: escaping laterally toward each other, we might just find that everything we wanted is already here.
~ Jenny Odell
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You won’t be able to recognize the things you really care about until you have released your grip on all the things that you’ve been taught to care about.
~ William Deresiewicz
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Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse.
~ Pablo Picasso
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Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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There is no idea so obscure that someone could not come to regard it as self-evident.
~ Leszek Kołakowski
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Kant’s position is extremely subtle — so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is.
~ Roger Scruton
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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
~ Emmanuel Radnitzky
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To save all we must risk all.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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This is a story of a period between two World Wars — an interim in which insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and humanity was kicked around somewhat.
~ Charlie Chaplin
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The bottom line is that if you give somebody a standardized test when they are 13 or 18, you will learn something important about them, but not necessarily whether they will flourish in life, nor necessarily whether they will contribute usefully to society’s greater good. Intelligence is not the same as effectiveness.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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