Zilberstein Quotes & Sayings

Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought. — Mark Kingwell

What if good institutions were in fact the product of good intentions? What if the cynicism that is supposed to be rigor and the acquisitiveness that is supposed to be realism are making us forget the origins of the greatness we lay claim to - power and wealth as secondary consequences of the progress of freedom, or, as Whitman would prefer, Democracy? — Marilynne Robinson

As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead,
For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said.
Yet all must copy copies, all increase their kind ... — William Butler Yeats

Within the walls of Love Hall, Lord Loveall could command this kind of respect. — Wesley Stace

But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it. — Hilary Mantel

What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn. — Jim Trelease

Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse. — Raquel Cepeda