Search results for “Why We write about ourselves”
Trailblazing Astronomer Maria Mitchell on How We Co-Create Each Other and Recreate Ourselves Through Friendship
“Whatever our degree of friends may be, we come more under their influence than we are aware.”
How Bach Will Save Your Soul: German Philosopher Josef Pieper on the Hidden Source of Music’s Supreme Power
“Music opens a path into the realm of silence.”
Loren Eiseley on the Relationship Between Nature and Human Nature
A poetic meditation on “the sole prescription, not for survival — which is meaningless — but for a society worthy to survive.”
Ursula K. Le Guin on Redeeming the Imagination from the Commodification of Creativity and How Storytelling Teaches Us to Assemble Ourselves
“Literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we’re visiting, life.”
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.”
The Creative Tension Between Vitality and Fatality: Illuminating the Mystery of Sylvia Plath Through Her Striking Never-Before-Revealed Visual Art
“How frail the human heart must be — a throbbing pulse, a trembling thing — a fragile, shining instrument of crystal, which can either weep, or sing.”
Speech, Action, and the Human Condition: Hannah Arendt on How We Invent Ourselves and Reinvent the World
“The smallest act in the most limited circumstances bears the seed of … boundlessness, because one deed, and sometimes one word, suffices to change every constellation.”
The Ethics of Belief: The Great English Mathematician and Philosopher William Kingdon Clifford on the Discipline of Doubt and How We Can Trust a Truth
“It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.”
Hourglass: Dani Shapiro on Time, Memory, Marriage, and What Makes Us Who We Are
“Change even one moment, the whole thing unravels… There is no other life than this. You would not have stumbled into the vastly imperfect, beautiful, impossible present.”
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