The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the “state of emergency” in which we live is not the exception but the rule.
― Walter Benjamin
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest external horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.
~ Audre Lorde
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San Diego State University was founded on this day in 1897
San Diego State University was established on this day – March 13 – in 1897.
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Satirists are famously also moralists, and Michel Houellebecq is no exception. Indeed, he’s a religious writer, even though his scabrous novels usually scoff at established religion.
~ Judith Shulevitz via The Atlantic
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The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things.
~ John Ruskin
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Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.
~ Franz Kafka
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Bourgeois thought judges social phenomena conscious or unconsciously, naïvely or subtly, consistently from the standpoint of the individual. No path leads from the individual to the totality.
~ György Lukács
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Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.
~ Richard Rorty
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There is a wisdom of the head, and there is a wisdom of the heart.
~ Charles Dickens
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Does the imagination dwell the most upon a woman won or woman lost?
~ William Butler Yeats
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