ARENDT, KANT, AND JUDGMENT

Hannah Arendt:
He [Kant] asked: What are the conditions of our experience? Crucial for Kant is that for him, and him alone, the highest faculty of man is Judgment (and not reasoning, as for Descartes, nor the drawing of conclusions after conclusions as for Hegel.

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SOCIAL INSECURITIES AND FOMO, 1954 VERSION

Mary McCarthy:
Saul Bellow was here too, with son and dog, not very friendly, either. In short, last month was rather paranoid, which got me rattled.

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GRIEF AND REGRET

Cormac McCarthy:
Grief is the stuff of life. A life without grief is no life at all.

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THE BONDS OF READING

Cormac McCarthy:
…having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood.

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MAKING A READING PLAN

I spent a couple of hours yesterday making up a list of 20 books to read in fall 2023.

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THE PRACTICE OF WRITING

Albert Einstein:
The most important method of education … always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.

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