Search results for “Hannah Arendt”
The Value of a Compassionate Lie
A poignant reminder that a life of nuance in a black-and-white culture is the greatest art of all.
Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Anger, Forgiveness, and What Maturity Really Means
“To forgive is to assume a larger identity than the person who was first hurt.”
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 Island of Knowledge: How to Live with Mystery in a Culture Obsessed with Certainty and Definitive Answers
“We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery.”
On “Beauty”: Marilynne Robinson on Writing, What Storytelling Can Learn from Science, and the Splendors of Uncertainty
“We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.”
The Boy Who Loved Math: The Illustrated Story of Eccentric Genius and Lovable Oddball Paul Erdős
How a prodigy of primes became the Magician from Budapest before he learned how to butter his own bread.
Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones
How to become an “antischolar” in a culture that treats knowledge as “an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order.”
Rilke on Our Fear of the Unexplainable
“Fear of the unexplainable has not only impoverished our inner lives, but also diminished relations between people.”
Self-Refinement Through the Wisdom of the Ages: New Year’s Resolutions from Some of Humanity’s Greatest Minds
Enduring ideas for personal refinement from Seneca, Thoreau, Virginia Woolf, Carl Sagan, Alan Watts, Emerson, Bruce Lee, Maya Angelou, and more.
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