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Febrero 27, 2006
In the world she was rather silent...
In the world she was rather silent, contributing just her share of urbane humor with a precision that approached meagreness. But at the moment when strangers tended to grow uncomfortable in the presence of this economy, she would seize the topic and rush off with it, feverishly surprised with herself - then bring it back, and relinquish it abruptly, almost timidly, like an obedient retriever, having been adequate and something more.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, from Tender is the Night
Posted by sarita at 1:05 PM
Febrero 22, 2006
No, vertigo...
No, vertigo is something other than the fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.
Milan Kundera
Posted by sarita at 11:57 AM
Febrero 16, 2006
We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest...
A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive.
Albert Einstein
Posted by sarita at 9:50 PM
Febrero 14, 2006
The winter loves me...
"The winter loves me," he retorted, and then, disliking the whimsical sound of that, added, "I mean as much as you can say a season can love. What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love." I didn't think that this was true, my seventeen years of experience had shown this to be much more false than true, but it was like every other thought and belief of Finny's: it should have been true. So I didn't argue."
John Knowles
Posted by sarita at 9:19 PM
Love is...
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
and here is the King James version of the above passage:
4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
I Corinthians 13: 1-13
Posted by sarita at 9:46 AM
Febrero 13, 2006
True liberal education...
True liberal education requires that the student's whole life can be changed by it, that what [s/]he learns may affect his actions, his tastes, his choices, that no previous attachment be immune to examination and hence re-evaluation. Liberal education puts everything at risk and requires students who are able to risk everything. Otherwise it can only touch what is uncommitted in the already essentially committed.
Allan Bloom
Posted by sarita at 8:19 AM
Febrero 5, 2006
we erase ourselves...
"It's one of the tragic things about America that we erase ourselves so quickly," she said. "If you continue to erase yourself, you are not going to know who you are. I think of my pieces as social genealogy."
Chris Piazza, artist, quoted in the New York Times, February 5, 2006.
Posted by sarita at 4:46 PM