“I’ve reached an age where I’m two generations past when I was considered avant garde. I went right from avant garde to being old hat in five minutes, and you start to feel superannuated. With every new generation, popular art changes. Already there’s a generation that thinks the Beatles are old-fashioned, which I find screamingly [...]

“All great artists and thinkers [are] great workers, indefatigable, not only in inventing, but also in rejecting, sifting, transforming, ordering.”
–Friederich Nietzsche, Human, All-Too-Human
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“If this was easy, you wouldn’t be sitting here.”
–Barack Obama to congressional Democrats, discussing health care reform, March 3, 2010
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“We ought to seek out virtue not merely to contemplate it, but to derive benefit from doing so.”
–Plutarch
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“Life without a ruffle would be a very dull business. It is not to be expected. Therefore it is wisdom to put up with all the roughness of life…”
–Mahatma Gandhi, letter, 1932
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“Whether or not someone is perceived as wise, intelligent, or creative will depend a great deal on environmental context. If what has been described as wise is valued in an environment, then a person exhibiting these attributes will be labeled as wise.”
–Robert J. Sternberg, “Wisdom and its relations to intelligence and creativity” (1990)
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“Even if we could be learned with other men’s learning, at least wise we cannot be except by our own wisdom.”
–Michel de Montaigne, “Of Pedantry”
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“Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don’t deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice.”

–Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What’s the Right Thing To Do (2009)
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