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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...