Search results for “authentic”
C.S. Lewis on Equality and Our Core Misconception About Democracy
“The tempter always works on some real weakness in our own system of values: offers food to some need which we have starved.”
Making the Impossible Possible: 21-Year-Old Hillary Rodham’s Remarkable 1969 Wellesley College Commencement Speech
“If the only tool we have ultimately to use is our lives, so we use it in the way we can by choosing a way to live that will demonstrate the way we feel and the way we know.”
The Artists’ and Writers’ Cookbook: Food-Related Memories, Meditations, and Favorite Recipes by Beloved Creators
Neil Gaiman’s unblinking omelette, Joyce Carol Oates’s thin-sliced defiance of grief, Marina Abramovic’s meteoric antidote to doubt, and other existential edibles.
Composing a Life: Anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson on Our False Mythos of Achievement and the Messy, Nonlinear Reality of How We Become Who We Are
“The knight errant, who finds his challenges along the way, may be a better model for our times than the knight who is questing for the Grail.”
Auden on Writing, Originality, Self-Criticism, and How to Be a Good Reader
“It would only be necessary for a writer to secure universal popularity if imagination and intelligence were equally distributed among all men.”
Leonard Cohen on Moonlight, the Mystique of Creativity, His Influences, and Why He Loves It When People Cover His Songs
“It’s also very difficult to untangle influences because you represent the sum of everything you’ve seen or heard or experienced.”
I Regard With Compassion, Therefore I Am: Descartes on How We Acquire Nobility of Soul and the Crucial Difference Between Confidence and Pride
“Pride … is always a serious fault, the seriousness of which is greater in proportion as the justification for one’s self-esteem is less.”
The Difficult Balance of Intimacy and Independence: Beloved Philosopher and Poet Kahlil Gibran on the Secret to a Loving and Lasting Relationship
“Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”
Reclaiming Friendship: A Visual Taxonomy of Platonic Relationships to Counter the Commodification of the Word “Friend”
Exploring the concentric circles of human connection through the lens of our ideal and real selves.
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