Reads tagged with “culture”
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.”
A Responsibility to Light: An Illustrated Manifesto for Creative Resilience and the Artist’s Duty in Dark Times
“Feel all the things. Feel the hard things. The inexplicable things, the things that make you disavow humanity’s capacity for redemption… Feel afraid. Feel powerless. Feel frozen. And then FOCUS.”
Love and Will: The Great Existential Psychologist Rollo May on Apathy, Transcendence, and Our Human Task in Times of Radical Transition
“In every act of love and will — and in the long run they are both present in each genuine act — we mold ourselves and our world simultaneously. This is what it means to embrace the future.”
Go the Way Your Blood Beats: James Baldwin on Love, the Trap of Labels, and His Liberating Advice on Coming Out
“Loving anybody and being loved by anybody is a tremendous danger, a tremendous responsibility.”
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.”
Don Giovanni and the Universe: Aldous Huxley on How the Moon Illuminates the Complementarity of Spirituality and Science
“The universe throws down a challenge to the human spirit… We have a right to our moods of sober exultation.”
The Universe in Verse: Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith Reads from “Life on Mars”
An ode to the human zest for “bowing before the oracle-eye, hungry for what it would find.”
Stitching a Supernova: A Needlepoint Celebration of Science by Pioneering Astronomer Cecilia Payne
“These moments are rare, and they come without warning… They are the ineffable reward of him who scans the face of Nature.”
Bertrand Russell on the Two Types of Knowledge and What Makes a Fulfilling Life
“In all forms of love we wish to have knowledge of what is loved, not for purposes of power but for the ecstasy of contemplation… This may indeed be made the touchstone of any love that is valuable.”
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