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The Heroism of Being a Contrarian: Jacob Bronowski on the Essential Character Trait of the Creative Person
“The creative personality is always one that looks on the world as fit for change and on himself as an instrument for change.”
The Telling: An Unusual and Profound 1967 Manifesto for Truth
“The task of truth is divided among us, to the number of us… We must grasp the Subject with the tongs of our individual littleness; take the measure of it with what we are.”
Simone de Beauvoir on the Artist’s Task to Liberate the Present from the Past
“The artist … must first will freedom within himself and universally; he must try to conquer it.”
Hannah Arendt on Loneliness as the Common Ground for Terror and How Tyrannical Regimes Use Isolation as a Weapon of Oppression
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi… but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
16 Overall Favorite Books of 2016
From loneliness to love to black holes, by way of Neil Gaiman, Annie Dillard, and Mary Oliver.
The Sane Society: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on How to Save Us From Ourselves
“The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born, when we die.”
Rebecca West on Storytelling as a Survival Mechanism and How Art Transforms Mere Existence into Meaningful Being
“Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.”
Hannah Arendt on Jewishness, the Immigrant Plight for Identity, and the Meaning of “Refugee”
“Society has discovered discrimination as the great social weapon by which one may kill men without any bloodshed.”
The Conscience of Words: Susan Sontag on the Wisdom of Literature, the Danger of Opinions, and the Writer’s Task
“A writer ought not to be an opinion-machine… The job of the writer is to make us see the world as it is, full of many different claims and parts and experiences.”
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