Louis

“Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.”
― Anthony Burgess, Little Wilson and Big God

“someone will remember us
I say
even in another time”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“Understanding men or ideas or movements, or the outlooks of individuals or groups, is not reducible to a sociological classification into types of behaviour with predictions based on scientific experiment and carefully tabulated statistics of observations.”
― Isaiah Berlin, Russian Thinkers

“True pluralism, as Berlin understands it, is much more tough-minded and intellectually bold: it rejects the view that all conflicts of values can be finally resolved by synthesis and that all desirable goals may be reconciled. It recognises that human nature generates values which, though equally sacred, equally ultimate, exclude one another, without there being any possibility of establishing an objective hierarchical relation among them. Moral conduct may therefore involve making agonising choices, without the help of universal criteria, between incompatible but equally desirable values.”
― Isaiah Berlin, Russian Thinkers