Justin Ulmer

“Now is the autumn of our ennui.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“When the point of education becomes the production of credentials rather than the cultivation of knowledge, it forfeits the motive recognized by Aristotle: "All human beings by nature desire to know.”
― Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work

“Merry he could be, and kindly to the young and simple, and yet quick at times to sharp speech and the rebuking of folly; but he was not proud, and sought neither power nor praise, and thus far and wide he was beloved among all those that were not themselves proud.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Unfinished Tales

“Give him a name and you have a character. Give him character and you have a person.”
― Justin Ulmer