Yeats by Cillian Murphy.
Yeats by Cillian Murphy.
When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.
- Abraham Heschel
I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely “played.”
May Sarton
Letter to Louise Bogan
3rd July 1955
Via Letters of Note
Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been.
David Bowie via philosophical.quote
And little by little I began to wake up to the fact that I am, like everyone else in the academic humanities, really just scraping by in a ghost-career, a vestige of an older order that no one has yet worked up the courage to put out of its misery, but that really cannot continue to fulfill its purported function of shaping well-rounded citizens, when it is so fully subordinated to the primary function of the 21st-century university, which is, namely, fundraising.
Justin Smith-Ruiu via Alan Jacobs