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Hope in the Dark: Rebecca Solnit on the Redemptive Radiance of the World’s Invisible Revolutionaries
“The grounds for hope are in the shadows, in the people who are inventing the world while no one looks, who themselves don’t know yet whether they will have any effect…”
Uncertainty and Our Search for Meaning: Legendary Psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom on How We Glean Our Sense of Purpose
“The search for meaning, much like the search for pleasure, must be conducted obliquely. Meaning ensues from meaningful activity: the more we deliberately pursue it, the less likely are we to find it.”
Elie Wiesel’s Timely Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech on Human Rights and Our Shared Duty in Ending Injustice
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
Sherwin Nuland on the Art of Dying and How Our Mortality Confers Meaning Upon Our Lives
“The greatest dignity to be found in death is the dignity of the life that preceded it.”
Artist Francis Bacon on the Role of Suffering and Self-Knowledge in Creative Expression
“An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.”
How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love
“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come… We live everything as it comes, without warning.”
Beloved Composer Leonard Bernstein on the Importance of Believing in Each Other and How Art Fortifies Our Mutual Dignity
“We must learn to know ourselves better through art. We must rely more on the unconscious, inspirational side of man… We must believe, without fear, in people.”
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.
Chinua Achebe on the Meaning of Life and the Writer’s Responsibility in the World
The difference between blind optimism and the urge to improve the world’s imperfection.
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