Reads tagged with “culture”
Hannah Arendt on Human Nature vs. Culture, What Equality Really Means, and How Our Language Confers Reality Upon Our Experience
“An experience makes its appearance only when it is being said. And unless it is said it is, so to speak, non-existent.”
Descartes on Opinion vs. Reason, the Key to a Wakeful Mind, and the Discipline of Critical Introspection
“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to apply it well.”
The Trailblazing 18th-Century French Mathematician Émilie du Châtelet on Jealousy and the Metaphysics of Love
“It is the privilege of affection to see a friend in all the situations of his soul.”
Polish Poet and Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on the Creative Power of Uncertainty
“Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know.’”
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 Nothingness of Personality: Young Borges on the Self
“There is no whole self. It suffices to walk any distance along the inexorable rigidity that the mirrors of the past open to us in order to feel like outsiders, naively flustered by our own bygone days.”
Mathematician Lillian Lieber on Infinity, Art, Science, the Meaning of Freedom, and What It Takes to Be a Finite But Complete Human Being
Mathematics and poetry converge in an ode to the “sweet reasonableness” at the heart of a psychologically balanced character.
The Heroism of Being a Contrarian: Jacob Bronowski on the Essential Character Trait of the Creative Person
“The creative personality is always one that looks on the world as fit for change and on himself as an instrument for change.”
This Is a Poem That Heals Fish: An Almost Unbearably Wonderful Picture-Book About How Poetry Works Its Magic
“A poem … is when you are in love and have the sky in your mouth.”
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