Reads tagged with “Jonathan Cott”

3 Things to Learn from a Child, 7 from a Thief: Bob Dylan’s Favorite Rabbi Teaching
On the value of remaining resolutely what you are.

Bob Dylan on Vulnerability, the Meaning of Integrity, and Music as an Instrument of Truth
“You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to me being vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose.”

Carl Sagan on Mystery, Why Common Sense Blinds Us to the Universe, and How to Live with the Unknown
“We are bathing in mystery and confusion… That will always be our destiny. The universe will always be much richer than our ability to understand it.”

Geographical Fun: A Victorian Teenage Girl’s Impressive Cartographic Caricatures of European Countries and Their National Stereotypes
Within a humorous gem, a serious reminder of how malleable even the seeming solidities of geopolitics are.

Young vs. Old, Male vs. Female, Intuition vs. Intellect: Susan Sontag on How the Stereotypes and Polarities of Culture Imprison Us
“The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people.”

John Lennon on Creativity
“Every song I’ve ever written has been absolute torture… except for the ten or so songs the gods give you and that come out of nowhere.”

Chinua Achebe on Art as a Form of Citizenship: Lessons in Creativity as “Collective Communal Enterprise” from the Igbo Tradition of Mbari
“There is no rigid barrier between makers of culture and its consumers. Art belongs to all and is a ‘function’ of society.”

Leonard Bernstein on Cynicism, Instant Gratification, and Why Paying Attention Is a Countercultural Act of Courage and Resistance
“There is so much inherent goodness in people that if they aren’t inhibited by traumas and are given half a chance, it shines through.”

Love, Sex, and the World Between
“Part of the modern ideology of love is to assume that love and sex always go together… And probably the greatest problem for human beings is that they just don’t.”

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