The Daily Sabbatical

“Question the least little thing in their speeches and they will go on like bronze bowls that keep ringing for a long time after they have been struck and prolong the sound indefinitely unless you dampen them.”
                                  —Socrates (Plato’s Protagoras)

“The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of this world.”

–William James (The Varieties of Religious Experience)

Found on ReadySteadyBook:

Flannery O’Connor:

I am often asked if universities stifle writers. My view is that they don’t stifle enough of them.