“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
“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
