June 2011
21 posts
“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem...”
– Ray Bradbury (via therealchadhall)
“On the tour bus, people will be passing around the iPod, and there’s a feeling...”
– Gregg Gillis
“To approach the Other in conversation is to welcome his expression, in which at each instant he overflows the idea a thought would carry away from it. It is therefore to receive from the Other beyond the capacity of the I, which means exactly: to have the idea of infinity. But this also means: to be taught. The relation with the Other, or Conversation, is a non-allergic relation, an ethical...
“Melodramas of moral courage provide satisfaction through the comforting fantasy...”
– Jonathan Shay, Achilles in Vietnam
“Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you...”
– Ann Landers
Street harassment is about one thing: impressing... →
I’ve been teaching gender studies courses for nearly two decades, and I developed the first “Men and Masculinity” class ever taught at my college. Through my teaching and other work, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about sexual harassment and other forms of public and private violence against women. And the longer I do this work, the more I’m convinced that one of the roots of the problem –...
Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence.
Circe Berman: Who isn't?
People Argue Just to Win, Scholars Assert (The New... →
“For centuries thinkers have assumed that the uniquely human capacity for reasoning has existed to let people reach beyond mere perception and reflex in the search for truth. Rationality allowed a solitary thinker to blaze a path to philosophical, moral and scientific enlightenment.
Now some researchers are suggesting that reason evolved for a completely different purpose: to win arguments....
“I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just...”
– David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
- Wilco, “She’s a Jar”
“‘Not my problem’ is not a philosophy. It’s a mental illness. Right up there with...”
– Eric Weiner, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World (via thoughtsdetained)
“There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts… nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see …each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire,...
Let dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so; Let bears and lions growl and fight, For ‘tis their nature too. But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other’s eyes.
- Isaac Watts, Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite
“Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are...”
– Sigmund Freud
Dave: Yeah, I mean, none of us has made a new friend in, like, eleven years.
Brad: I wouldn't even know how to do that. What do you do, just, like, walk up to random people and go, 'hey, bluh bluh bluh, sports'?
Penny: The only new person I want to meet is my husband.
Max: I was once on this plane with this old lady and she tried talking to me. I just pretended I had some kind of disability.