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• Mar 3 Another More Mysterious Dimension Simone Weil, Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God (Waiting for God, trans. Emma Craufurd) If we concentrate our attention on trying to solve a problem of geometry, and if at the end of an ho...
• Feb 24 Pure Makeshift Wisława Szymborska, The Poet and the World (Nobel Lecture) This is why I value that little phrase "I don't know" so highly. It's small, but it flies on mighty ...
• Feb 5 Something Helpless Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet We have no reason to harbor any mistrust against our world, for it is not against us. If it has terr...
• Feb 4 A Single Taste Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science One thing is needful.— To 'give style' to one's character—a great and rare art! It is practiced by t...
• Jan 18 The Labour of Tradition T. S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate...