For The Love Of Wisdom

Søren Kierkegaard On Respect

Søren Kierkegaard (May 5, 1813–November 11, 1855) There is a form of envy of which I frequently have seen examples, in which an individual tries…

Ursula K Le Guin (October 21, 1929 - January 22, 2018) For old people beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does…

Rebecca Solnit (June 24, 1961 -) The man in the white house sits, naked and obscene, a pustule of ego, in the harsh light, a…

Samuel Johnson (September 18, 1709 – December 13, 1784) No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public…

Abbott Joseph "A. J." Liebling (October 18, 1904 – December 28, 1963) It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions…

Viet Thanh Nguyen (March 13, 1971 -) Our failures — and our successes — are due to our complicated humanity, not because of our ethnic…

Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) If America is the culmination of Western white civilization, as everyone from the Left to the…