Joseph Brodsky Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: May 24, 1940 - January 28, 1996
Birthday: May 24
Death: January 28
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.
source: Joseph Brodsky's commencement address at Williams College (1984), as quoted in Robert Inchausti "Thinking through Thomas Merton: Contemplation for Contemporary Times" (p. 110), 2014.
topic: Happiness, Thinking, Evil, Imposter, Eccentricity
