Reads tagged with “books”
Why We Walk: A Manifesto for Peripatetic Empowerment
“I walk because, somehow, it’s like reading.”
Rebecca Solnit on Love, Purposeful Work, and the Meaning of Liberty: An Empowered Retelling of Cinderella
“There are a lot of people with a lot of ideas about beauty. And love. When you love someone a lot, they just look like love.”
“Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Love, Mortality, and Night as an Existential Clarifying Force for the Deepest Truths of the Heart
“Day belongs to family quarrels, but with the night he who has quarreled finds love again. For love is greater than any wind of words… Love is not thinking, but being.”
Moon: A Peek-Through Picture-Book About the Most Beloved Fixture of the Night Sky
A sweet illustrated serenade to our eternal nocturnal companion and how it unites creaturely lives of great difference under its soft light.
Robert Browning on Artistic Integrity, Withstanding Criticism, and the Courage to Create Rather Than Cater
A countercultural serenade to the wellspring of the creative spirit against the tidal forces of commerce and criticism.
Marcus Aurelius on Embracing Mortality and the Key to Living with Presence
“The longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose.”
Toni Morrison on the Power of Art and the Writer’s Singular Service to Humanity
“Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it from even the most tragic of circumstances. Art reminds us that we belong here. And if we serve, we last.”
Reading for Life: Polish Poet Aleksander Wat on How Books Helped Him Survive in a Soviet Prison
“I had a great desire to live because I found Nietzsche’s amor fati in every trifle in every book, even the pessimistic ones. The more pessimistic the book, the more pulsating energy, life energy, I felt beneath its surface — as if all of literature were only the praise of life’s beauty, of all of life…”
Moral Wisdom in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Cybernetics Pioneer Norbert Wiener’s Prophetic Admonition About Technology and Ethics
“The world of the future will be an ever more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.”
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