Pritisak Vode Quotes & Sayings

Over the centuries, this interpretation and reinterpretation creates a long chain connecting a writer to all future readers- who frequently read each other as well as the original. Virginia Woolf had a beautiful vision of generations interlinked in this way: of how "minds are threaded together- how any live mind is of the very same stuff as Plato's & Euripides ... It is this common mind that binds the whole world together; & all the world is mind." This capacity for living on through readers' inner worlds over long periods of history is what makes a book like the 'Essays' a true classic. As it is reborn differently in each mind, it also brings those minds together. — Sarah Bakewell

Academic training actively deprives you of the qualities that make for good teaching. A good teacher speaks plainly, in vivid, accessible language, because she is addressing what amounts to a general audience. But the kind of jargon academics learn to use is designed to repel the uninitiated. A good teacher ranges widely, making connections among subjects as well as from learning to life. But academics are constrained to specialize, and increasingly, to hyperspecialize, looking neither left nor right as they plow their little corner of the field. — William Deresiewicz

All you have to do to see life whole is to see it as mortal. I'll die, you'll die; how could we love each other otherwise? — Ursula K. Le Guin

The wind blows through him, cleansing. Salt and distance, smell of the deep. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port. — Michel De Montaigne

Sometimes your best way to deal with shit is not to hold yourself as such a precious little prize. — Chuck Palahniuk

If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just, that this would be the best of worlds if there were no religion in it. — Thomas Jefferson