Pinned
Si recte calculum ponas, ubique naufragium est.
Make a fair reckoning, and there is a shipwreck everywhere.
Petronius Arbiter
Make a fair reckoning, and there is a shipwreck everywhere.
Petronius Arbiter
December 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Si recte calculum ponas, ubique naufragium est.
Make a fair reckoning, and there is a shipwreck everywhere.
Petronius Arbiter
Make a fair reckoning, and there is a shipwreck everywhere.
Petronius Arbiter
Abstractions without principles are mere euphemisms.
John Ganz
John Ganz
December 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Abstractions without principles are mere euphemisms.
John Ganz
John Ganz
Reposted by J Tarwood
American Black Duck at Boyd's Lane Marsh in Portsmouth, RI
#bird #birdphotography #birdsofrhodeisland
#bird #birdphotography #birdsofrhodeisland
December 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
American Black Duck at Boyd's Lane Marsh in Portsmouth, RI
#bird #birdphotography #birdsofrhodeisland
#bird #birdphotography #birdsofrhodeisland
Reposted by J Tarwood
Congratulating a man on being seventy-eight is like felicitating him on being in an airplane accident. He may survive, but it is not exactly an enjoyment.
William Randolf Hearst
William Randolf Hearst
December 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Congratulating a man on being seventy-eight is like felicitating him on being in an airplane accident. He may survive, but it is not exactly an enjoyment.
William Randolf Hearst
William Randolf Hearst
Whether or not they can apply this knowledge, people know, in a general way, that they shouldn’t be cruel or greedy. They know that these things are temptations to everyone—that they are everyone’s problem. People don’t know that about anti-intellectualism.
hedgehogreview.com/issues/place...
hedgehogreview.com/issues/place...
A Tale of Two College Towns
The public university and the small-town college are the best and worst of higher education options.
hedgehogreview.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Whether or not they can apply this knowledge, people know, in a general way, that they shouldn’t be cruel or greedy. They know that these things are temptations to everyone—that they are everyone’s problem. People don’t know that about anti-intellectualism.
hedgehogreview.com/issues/place...
hedgehogreview.com/issues/place...
Reposted by J Tarwood
No question seeing Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia changed my life, esp this line: “We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...
The Language of Tom Stoppard, Ablaze With Energy and Urgency
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:56 AM
No question seeing Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia changed my life, esp this line: “We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...
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“It makes me so happy. To be back at the beginning, knowing almost nothing.” -Arcadia, Tom Stoppard, zichrono l’bracha
November 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
“It makes me so happy. To be back at the beginning, knowing almost nothing.” -Arcadia, Tom Stoppard, zichrono l’bracha
I am not my body; my body is nothing without me.
Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard
November 30, 2025 at 4:18 AM
I am not my body; my body is nothing without me.
Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard
Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain’t that a big enough majority in any town?
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
November 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain’t that a big enough majority in any town?
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Reposted by J Tarwood
What’d I forget?
November 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
What’d I forget?
Consider well the seed that gave you birth:
You were not made to live your lives as brutes,
But to be followers of worth and knowledge.
Dante
You were not made to live your lives as brutes,
But to be followers of worth and knowledge.
Dante
November 27, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Consider well the seed that gave you birth:
You were not made to live your lives as brutes,
But to be followers of worth and knowledge.
Dante
You were not made to live your lives as brutes,
But to be followers of worth and knowledge.
Dante
May America be an Asylum to the persecuted of the Earth!
George Washington
George Washington
November 27, 2025 at 4:31 AM
May America be an Asylum to the persecuted of the Earth!
George Washington
George Washington