“We are humiliated by what is powerful and mean, but awed by what is powerful and noble.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Academic masochism reflects a metaphysical prejudice that the truth should be a hard-won treasure, that what is read or learnt easily must therefore be flighty and inconsequential. The truth should be like a mount to be scaled, it is dangerous,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
