( via / via )

"How can you lead without courage?"

"As the philosopher Mary Midgley once suggested, philosophers are best understood as plumbers: when the plumbing stops working, we call a plumber; when concepts no longer seem to work within our social framework, that is when we turn to philosophy." —@boredcalliope via

"My early impression is that 'turning benches into men' has a memetic resonance that will damage the lyrical mode and how we read it."

"...this belief in the value of pursuing a reading program of the classics was largely a social construct – a fad that arose in the twentieth centur."