Desire is the motivating force behind all progress and advancement in science, art, industry and in all phases of life.
Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?
Hamlet, Kiekegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmasriddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates.
Shakespeare is universal.
The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they are easier.
We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.
To read in the service of any ideology is not, in my judgment, to read at all.
The social and economic impact of the earthquake is still very present and is contributing to mental health problems, the mother who lost her husband, or children who lost their parents, and who now are responsible for the whole family, taking children to school and providing food. This transition is still causing stress and depression.
We can use economic instruments to help realize our goals but economics does not tell us what our goals should be.
I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world
You should have dreams, you should have visions. Never let any obstacle stop you.