That’s how envy works: the better things are, the worse they are, because they don’t belong to you.
~ William Deresiewicz
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Empathize with stupidity and you’re halfway to thinking like an idiot.
~ Iain Banks
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
~ Jonathan Swift
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God didn’t die, he was transformed into money.
~ Giorgio Agamben
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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn’t lead to wisdom? And what’s wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?
~ Iain Banks
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In trying to construct a society that maximized talent, James Conant and his peers were governed by the common assumptions of the era: Intelligence, that highest human trait, can be measured by standardized tests and the ability to do well in school from ages 15 to 18. Universities should serve as society’s primary sorting system, segregating the smart from the not smart. Intelligence is randomly distributed across the population, so sorting by intelligence will yield a broad-based leadership class.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.
― Walter Benjamin
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Claude Monet was born
on this day in 1840
Claude Monet – the French painter – was born on this day – November 14, 1840 – in Paris, France.
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