Collini Quotes & Sayings

Depth of understanding involves something which is more than merely a matter of deconstructive alertness; it involves a measure of interpretative charity and at least the beginnings of a wide responsiveness. — Stefan Collini

The recurrence during the eighteenth century Enlightenment of the aspiration to be the 'Newton of the moral sciences' testifies to the prestige not just of celestial mechanics, but of the 'experimental method' more generally. — Stefan Collini

In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve. — Stefan Collini

Sapiens: A Brief History of Us

I am
Four billion years of mutations
Hurling through space on a rock that grew green
And beauty.
Berry-picker, mammoth-hunter, storyteller,
Begetter of souls.
Cognition.
And I imagine. I believe. I surrender. We love.
And I believe
Bravely.
Shared myths, illusions weeping, a world
Connected by chafe and
Poetry.
Life-giving secrets in
Immortal words in a la la land
Cresting.
I am
A wave
Breathing. Would die for you.
I believe.
I am. — Anne P. Collini

A different voice may be particularly effective in disturbing the existing participants into re-examining matters they had come to take for granted. — Stefan Collini

Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world. — Stefan Collini