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Wendell Berry on the Grandeur of Small Places and the Perils of Our “Rugged Individualism”
“The extent of our knowledge will always be… the measure of the extent of our ignorance.”
A Seizure of Happiness: Mary Oliver on Finding Magic in Life’s Unremarkable Moments
How to revel in the “sudden awareness of the citizenry of all things within one world.”
Walter Benjamin on Finding Wisdom in the Age of Information and Storytelling as the Antidote to Death by News
“The value of information does not survive the moment in which it was new. It lives only at that moment; it has to surrender to it completely and explain itself to it without losing any time. A story is different. It does not expend itself. It preserves and concentrates its strength and is capable of releasing it even after a long time.”
The Best LGBT Children’s Books: A Sweet and Assuring Celebration of Diversity and Difference
From Maurice Sendak to the real-life story of a gay penguin family, by way of grandmothers and kings.
A Decadent Decade of Design Matters: 10 Years of Intelligent and Inspiring Interviews with Creative Icons
Stimulating, ennobling, deeply human conversations with Maira Kalman, Seth Godin, Dani Shapiro, Malcolm Gladwell, Chris Ware, Shepard Fairey, and more.
Young Delacroix on the Importance of Solitude in Creative Work and How to Resist Social Distractions
“Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul… Seek solitude.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. on Justice and the Four Steps to Successful Nonviolent Resistance
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality… Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
This Idea Must Die: Some of the World’s Greatest Thinkers Each Select a Major Misconception Holding Us Back
From the self to left brain vs. right brain to romantic love, a catalog of broken theories that hold us back from the conquest of Truth.
Virginia Woolf on the Paradox of the Soul and the Consolations of Growing Older
“One can’t write directly about the soul. Looked at, it vanishes.”
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