“Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.”
― The Active Side of Infinity
― The Active Side of Infinity
“Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“We have made a problem for ourselves by confusing the intelligible with the fixed. We think that making sense out of life is impossible unless the flow of events can somehow be fitted into a framework of rigid forms. To be meaningful, life must be understandable in terms of fixed ideas and laws, and these in turn must correspond to unchanging and eternal realities behind the shifting scene. But if this what "making sense out of life" means, we have set ourselves the impossible task of making fixity out of flux.”
― The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
― The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
“I believe our education system as a whole has not integrated the histories of all people into our education system, just the Eurocentric view of itself, and the White-centered view of African Americans, and even this is slim to nonexistent. What I find is that most people don't know the fact they don't know, because of the complete lack of information.”
― A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
― A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
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