Bob Herbert (March 07, 1945 -) One of the essential problems of our society is that we have a tendency, amid all the craziness that surrounds us, to lose sight of what is truly human in ourselves, and that includes our own individual needs — those very special, mostly nonmaterial things that would fulfill us, …
Ann Patchett On Writing
Ann Patchett (December 2, 1963 -) You don't step out of the stream of your life to do your work. Work was the life, and who you were as a mother, teacher, friend, citizen, activist, and artist was all the same person. People like to ask me if writing can be taught, and I say …
Albert Einstein On Solitude
Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) My passionate interest in social justice and social responsibility has always stood in curious contrast to a marked lack of desire for direct association with men and women. I am a horse for single harness, not cut out for tandem or teamwork. I have never …
Albert Camus On Opening The Heart
Albert Camus (November 07, 1913 – January 04, 1960) A person's life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art, or love, or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his heart first opened.
Hermann Hesse On God
Hermann Hesse (July 02, 1877 – August 09, 1962) If you are now wondering where to look for consolation, where to seek a new and better God, a new and better faith, you will surely realize, in your present loneliness and despair, that this time you must not look to external, official sources, to Bibles, …
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil On Experts
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (February 03, 1830 – August 22, 1903) No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require …
Rebecca Solnit On The Media
Rebecca Solnit (June 24, 1961 -) I think of the mainstream media as having not so much a rightwing or leftwing bias but a status quo bias, a tendency to believe people in authority, to trust institutions and corporations and the rich and powerful and pretty much any self-satisfied white man in a suit; to …
