Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
~ Anton Chekhov
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgment by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
~ Franz Kafka
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Philosophies can be judged, at most, on the grounds of the perspicacity with which they decide that something is worthy of becoming the starting point for a global explanatory hypothesis.
~ Umberto Eco
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There is no friend as loyal as a book.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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In the context of health and ecology, things that grow unchecked are often considered parasitic or cancerous. Yet we inhabit a culture that privileges novelty and growth over the cyclical and the regenerative. Our very idea of productivity is premised on the idea of producing something new, whereas we do not tend to see maintenance and are as productive in the same way.
~ Jenny Odell
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
~ Toni Morrison
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
~ Otto von Bismarck
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
~ Ludwig von Mises
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Is your own existence so replete with equanimity you find no outlet for worry except on behalf of others?
~ Iain Banks
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