May 6, 2026 | Wednesday Quotes
In Reclaiming Conversation Sherry Turkle offers a remarkably important and practical insight: we need to cultivate a “capacity for solitude.” Its profound significance is apparent in a simple assertion that says much about all of us, not just young people: “If we are...
Feb 12, 2025 | Wednesday Quotes
Wise men and the purveyors of contemporary culture recognize the same dramatic truth. We are addicted to news. Probably unlike the purveyors, the wise perceive the root of the addiction and so can offer something the purveyors don’t want—a path to freedom. Over...
May 22, 2024 | Wednesday Quotes
One of the most arresting lines in the Psalms is in 46:10, “Be still and see that I am God.” The verbs in Latin are memorable: vacate et videte. As these are plural imperatives it seems to be a command that applies to everyone. And it begins with a demanding...
Apr 24, 2024 | Wednesday Quotes
Perhaps the most overlooked truth about human life is that we are made for contemplation. All of us. It’s not that our activist and practical age directly rejects this. Almost worse, our customs, practices and expectations take for granted that anything called...
Nov 13, 2019 | Wednesday Quotes
“…or we may witness shameless intrusion on the privacy of well-known people under the slogan: ‘Everyone is entitled to know everything.’ But this is a false slogan, characteristic of a false era. People also have the right not to know and it’s a much more...
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