“Wonder is the sense, which comes in a flash but won’t go away, that things are not as straightforward as they seem,… — Eva Brann Curiosity 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… — Eva Brann Free spirit Copy Share Image
A gentleman is someone who never gives offense unintentionally. — Eva Brann Gentleman 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… — Eva Brann Access 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,… — 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,… — 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… — Eva Brann Spirituality 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… — Eva Brann Communication 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… — Eva Brann Psychology 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 Philosophy 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,… — Eva Brann Learning 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… — Eva Brann Beautiful Copy Share Image
