“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
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“There is a remarkable sentence of Pascal according to which we know too little to be dogmatists and too much to be skeptics, which expresses beautifully what Plato conveys through his dialogues.”
― On Plato's Symposium
― On Plato's Symposium
“I rehearsed Foucault's argument that the presence of madness on our doorstep is good for us, for it reminds us the life we live is only one among several human possibilities.”
― Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life
― Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life
“too much sadness hath congealed your blood,
And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.”
― The Taming of the Shrew
And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.”
― The Taming of the Shrew
“Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.”
― Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life
― Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life
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