I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became.
~ Franz Kafka
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The Messiah comes not only as the redeemer, he comes as the subduer of Antichrist.
― Walter Benjamin
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The 90s were better. They just were. I’m sorry, but it’s science. It was the past, but there were vaccines and Jim Crow was over and there was a modern sensibility without all of the pathologies of the internet.
~ Freddie deBoer
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As we learn to bear the intimacy of scrutiny and to flourish within it, as we learn to use the products of that scrutiny for power within our living, those fears which rule our lives and form our silences begin to lose their control over us.
~ Audre Lorde
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Michel Houellebecq doesn’t just forecast current events; he satirizes them, dryly, with perfect pitch. His mimicry of the inflated language of marketing, bureaucratic euphemism, and hypertechnical mumbo jumbo finds the exact midpoint between amusing and appalling.
~ Judith Shulevitz via The Atlantic
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In every era the attempt must be made anew to wrest tradition away from a conformism that is about to overpower it.
― Walter Benjamin
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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
~ Franz Kafka
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Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.
~ Albert Camus
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