For Simone Weil, attention was akin to prayer.
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We get nowhere near knowing, much less loving, another person through impersonal means.
Our society needs a certain kind of person and our society shapes a certain kind of person. How to align the two?
The strike zone is not reducible to the simple rectangle displayed on TV broadcasts.
We hold two apparently contradictory beliefs about war.
Six centuries after Gutenberg, the Internet has had a malignant effect on the public mind.
Real independence of mind can be won only by a sustained process of submission to authority.
More than even a poet, Nietzsche was a prophet—a jaundiced, nihilistic, and cracked prophet, but a prophet nonetheless.
Not Lewis the existentialist, but Lewis existentially, like Kierkegaard as much a psychologist as a theologian.