January 2011
“In “Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait,” Bendix articulates the...”
– Gary Wills
daily inspirations: The Thread of Life →
drakulita:
by Christina Rossetti 1 The irresponsive silence of the land, The irresponsive sounding of the sea, Speak both one message of one sense to me: — Aloof, aloof, we stand aloof, so stand Thou too aloof bound with the flawless band Of inner solitude; we bind not thee; But who from thy…
“Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it’s unendurable...”
– Andrew Sean Greer
“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives....”
– G.K. Chesterton
“For the first time in a generation, it is not religion, nor the adventures of a...”
– Anthony Shadid, New York Times, January 29, 2011
“I have always wondered what he is thinking when he looks at me, because when I...”
– Nora Roberts, Northern Lights (via itookadeepbreath)
“It is not mystical or perverse to say that good luck is bad luck; Machiavelli...”
– Gary Wills
“At such moments the collapse of their courage, willpower, and endurance was so...”
– Albert Camus
“Revolution must be distinguished from revolt, coup d’etat, palace takeover. A...”
– Ryszard Kapuscinski
“Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one...”
– Graham Greene
“What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any...”
– Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
“‘The best thing for being sad,’ replied Merlin, beginning to puff...”
– T.H. White
“We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It’s as simple and...”
– Michael Cunningham, The Hours (via welovewriters)
“It is authority that provokes revolution. Certainly, it does not do so...”
– Ryszard Kapuscinski
“By 1880 or so every major European nation enjoyed some kind of representative...”
– David Kaiser
“Oh Christ, the exhaustion of not knowing anything. It’s so tiring and hard...”
– Martin Amis
“Jan Yu replied: But Chuan-yü is strongly fortified, and close to our own town of...”
– The Analects of Confucius
“If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say...”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
“Just as there are physical monsters, can there not be mental or psychic monsters...”
– John Steinbeck
“The student of Neustadt [that is, Kennedy himself] had come to acquire power,...”
– Gary Wills
“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit...”
– Omar Khayyám
