“I also believe that the boundaries of school need to be made more porous and permeable, that we need to reduce the generational segregation that defines life and learning in our society.”
― The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50
― The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50
“Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”
― Critique of Practical Reason
― Critique of Practical Reason
“It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied, better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.”
― Utilitarianism
― Utilitarianism
“If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.”
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“The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.”
― I. Asimov: A Memoir
― I. Asimov: A Memoir
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