“It is a maxim of learning: To learn anything requires letting it be, but not letting it alone. Is there a way, a mode of engagement, of not letting things or people alone that yet lets them be—not tolerably, not… — Eva Brann Copy Share Image
“In learning as in traveling and, of course, in lovemaking, all the charm lies in not coming too quickly to the point, but in meandering around for a while.” — Eva Brann Copy Share Image
“Wonder is the sense, which comes in a flash but won’t go away, that things are not as straightforward as they seem, that the… — Eva Brann Copy Share Image
“Odysseus is the statesman of the Iliad, the man in the middle, keeping what balance he can among the parties. He shows himself at… — Eva Brann Copy Share Image
You will be educated, which means that you will be interested where others are bored, that you will notice unities where others experience randomness,… — Eva Brann Copy Share Image
“It is a maxim of learning: To learn anything requires letting it be, but not letting it alone. Is there a way, a mode… — Eva Brann Copy Share Image
“Respect is better than tolerance (2) for the very obverse and complement of its sternness: It does not just “bear” the others, nor just… — Eva Brann Copy Share Image
“So I imagine that the soul is in one aspect a pervasive, transformable matter and in another a particular, personal intelligence; it is envelopingly… — Eva Brann Copy Share Image
“This lack of leisure and of intimacy is not a peripheral matter—nothing Socrates thinks can be expeditiously conveyed by public deliverance; it must always… — Eva Brann Copy Share Image
“What a reflection on yourself to despise those who admire you! That said, one's usually of two minds: 1. You're ludicrously overdoing it; 2.… — Eva Brann Copy Share Image
“Wisdom-loving” translates philosophos. (If I dared, I’d translate it “wannabe-wise” as opposed to sophos, “having smarts,” skillful.)” — Eva Brann Copy Share Image
“In learning as in traveling and, of course, in lovemaking, all the charm lies in not coming too quickly to the point, but in… — Eva Brann Copy Share Image
Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up of beautiful… — Eva Brann Copy Share Image
