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Friedrich Nietzsche on Why a Fulfilling Life Requires Embracing Rather than Running from Difficulty
A century and a half before our modern fetishism of failure, a seminal philosophical case for its value.
Legendary Choreographer Merce Cunningham on Life, Learning, and the Creative Experience
“A good teacher keeps out of the way.”
Joni Mitchell on Freedom, the Source of Creativity, and the Dark Side of Success
“How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open… to encounter and to… be in touch with the miraculous.”
Georgia O’Keeffe on Art, Life, and Setting Priorities
“Anyone with any degree of mental toughness ought to be able to exist without the things they like most for a few months at least.”
James Baldwin on the Creative Process and the Artist’s Responsibility to Society
“A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.”
Italo Calvino on the Unbearable Lightness of Language, Literature, and Life
“The idea of the world as composed of weightless atoms is striking just because we know the weight of things so well.”
Too-ticky’s Guide to Life: Wisdom on Uncertainty, Presence, and Self-Reliance from Beloved Children’s Book Author Tove Jansson
“All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured.”
John Dewey on the True Purpose of Education and How to Harness the Power of Our Natural Curiosity
“While it is not the business of education … to teach every possible item of information, it is its business to cultivate deep-seated and effective habits of discriminating tested beliefs from mere assertions, guesses, and opinions.”
The Life of the Mind: Hannah Arendt on Thinking vs. Knowing and the Crucial Difference Between Truth and Meaning
“To lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking and cease to ask unanswerable questions [would be to] lose not only the ability to produce those thought-things that we call works of art but also the capacity to ask all the answerable questions upon which every civilization is founded.”
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