“One should expect only the very shallowest sort of revelation from the literary pilgrimage. Whatever remains, whatever is real, survives purely as that dense and ethereal thing: language.”
“My grandfather never expected me to meet the family he left behind in Assam. He kept them secret, and was apparently ready to take the fact of their existence to the grave.”
“ In terms more suited to an Ancient Greek dramatist or a medieval theologian than a YouTuber or a typical guest on The Joe Rogan Experience, Peterson talks in a way that would make a dinner party unravel into silence.”
“In 1959, less than a year before he died, Camus told another interviewer that, along with the theatre, the football pitch had been one of his two ‘real universities.’”
“Intellectual reputation is a weird lottery. In his heyday, Erikson was a star; today, his name is barely recognised. But Erikson’s ideas shouldn’t be allowed to evaporate into history.”
"Buber was abandoned by his mother at three years old, and said in old age that his lifelong engagement with the nature of human relationships ‘had its origin in that moment’ when he realised she was never coming back.”