“Dilige et fac quod vis.
딜리제 에트 팍 쿼드 비스.
사랑하라, 그리고 네가 하고 싶은 것을 하라.”
―
딜리제 에트 팍 쿼드 비스.
사랑하라, 그리고 네가 하고 싶은 것을 하라.”
―
“The social science fear the radical impulse in literary studies, and over the decades, we in the humanities have trivialized the social sciences into their rational expectation straitjackets, not recognizing that, whatever the state of the social sciences in our own institution, strong tendencies toward acknowledging the silent but central role of the humanities in the area studies paradigm are now around.”
― Death of a Discipline
― Death of a Discipline
“but heavens! how that man could talk! He electrified large meetings. He had faith—don't you see?—he had the faith. He could get himself to believe anything—anything. He would have been a splendid “leader of an extreme party.' 'What party?' I asked. 'Any party,' answered the other. 'He was an—an—extremist.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“When we seem to have won or lost in terms of certainties, we must, as literature teachers in the classroom, remember such warnings -- let literature teach us that there are no certainties, that the process is open, and that it may be altogether salutary that it is so.”
― Death of a Discipline
― Death of a Discipline
“Don't be too sure,' he continued. “The other day I took up a man who hanged himself on the road. He was a Swede, too.' 'Hanged himself! Why, in God's name?' I cried. He kept on looking out watchfully. 'Who knows? The sun too much for him, or the country perhaps.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
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