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Grendel's Laundry List: Readings for Monday
“…let us not at present ask what the good is, for to reach what is now in my thoughts would be an effort too great for me.”
Plato, Republic
“Philosophy progresses not by solving problems but by abandoning them.”
John Dewey
“The soul is like the eye. When turned toward that on which truth and being shine, the soul perceives and understands, radiant with intelligence; but when turned toward the twilight of becoming and perishing, then she has opinion only, and goes blinking about, and is first of one opinion, and then another, and seems to have no intelligence.”
Plato, Republic
“Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal. The camera understands its enemy, and shuts its eye.”
William Gass, On Being Blue
“You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.”
Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk
“My nostrils decipher a mild star.”
Sean Samoheyl
“Look, the stars with their long needles
have sewn your foot to the dark river.”
Dana Pattillo, Oracione
“The river was your great wife, and the very hem of her skirt must be honored.”
Thomas McGuane
“Here everyone is like a just poured drink.
But the ones who drink us I still haven’t seen.”
Rainer Marie Rilke, Requiem for the Death of a Boy
“The superfluous is a very necessary thing.”
Voltaire
"Panta rhei."
Heraclitus
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