Search results for “Hannah Arendt”
The Osbick Bird: Edward Gorey’s Tender and Surprising Vintage Illustrated Allegory About the Meaning of True Love
A subversive Victorian-tinted infusion of romantic realism.
Stillness as a Form of Action: De Tocqueville on Cataclysm as an Antidote to Cultural Complacency and a Catalyst for Growth
“There are periods during which human society seems to rest… This pause is, indeed, only apparent, for time does not stop its course for nations any more than for [individuals]; they are all advancing every day towards a goal with which they are unacquainted.”
The Best of Brain Pickings 2019
Love, poetry, friendship, solitude, and lots of trees.
Against the Slippery Slope of Injustice: Amanda Palmer Reads Wendell Berry’s Stunningly Prescient Poem “Questionnaire”
The road to moral hell is paved with gradual self-permission.
The Antidote to Prejudice: Walter Lippmann on Overriding the Mind’s Propensity for Preconceptions
“There is a taint on any contact between two people which does not affirm as an axiom the personal inviolability of both.”
Conscience in Revolt: Sophie Scholl on Suffering, Strength, and the Deepest Wellspring of Courage
“Sympathy is often difficult and soon becomes hollow if one feels no pain oneself.”
The Psychology of Social Rule: Pioneering Sociologist Elsie Clews Parsons’s Prophetic Century-Old Study of Power, the Rise of Divisiveness, and Why We Classify Ourselves and Others
“Classification is nine-tenths of subjection.”
Beginnings at the End of Love: Rebecca West’s Extraordinary Love Letter to H.G. Wells in the Wake of Heartbreak
“I am always at a loss when I meet hostility, because I can love and I can do practically nothing else.”
Borders and Belonging: Toni Morrison’s Prescient Wisdom on the Refugee Struggle, the Violence of Otherness, and the Meaning of Home
“It may be that the most defining characteristic of our times is that, again, walls and weapons feature as prominently now as they once did in medieval times.”
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