"Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!"

-- David Chalmers

“A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.”
“With My Dog-Eyes by Hilda Hilst got more exposure and reached far more readers than I ever expected. Even my editor at Melville House, who championed the project form the outset, told me she was surprised by the response. After this, editors began asking my opinion about which Latin American writers ought to be translated. I realized I had some cultural capital to spend, and I wanted to use it to introduce another author who might be considered a risk by conventional publishers. Michael Noll was at the top of my list.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work.”
“What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst.”
“When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.”
“Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.”
“Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space.”

Source : Nicholas Murray Butler (1895). “What Knowledge is of Most Worth? ...”
“The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet.”

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