HAPPINESS AS BY-PRODUCT RATHER THAN END
May Sarton:
… in seeking happiness above all, of course we never find it. It is a by-product and not the end of life surely.
FREEDOM TO CHEW OVER ODD IDEAS
Jane Jacobs:
I was brought up to believe that there is no virtue in conforming meekly to the dominant opinion of the moment.
THE WORST OF TIMES, THE BEST OF TIMES
Simone Weil, 1938:
You could not have wished to be born in a better time than this, when everything has been lost.
WHY STUDY PHILOSOPHY?
Heinrich Blücher, via Hannah Arendt:
Advice to students: if you’re inclined to study philosophy, “you can do it only if you know that the most important thing in your life would be to succeed in this and the second most important thing, almost as important, to fail in precisely this.
CONFRONTING AGAIN THE QUESTION WHY DO I BLOG
Looking at the calendar, I see that yet again I’ve gone more than a week without posting something I’ve written to the blog something.
Read moreWONDERING ABOUT WONDERING
Lewis Thomas:
Wonder is a word to wonder about. It contains a mixture of messages: something marvelous and miraculous, surprising, raising unanswerable questions about itself, making the observer wonder, even raising skeptical questions like “I wonder about that.