July 2011
“To be liberally educated is to be transformed. A liberal arts education frees...”
– A Liberal Arts Education | College of Letters & Science
University of California at Berkeley, College of Letters and Science on the purpose and effects of a liberal arts education.
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June 2011
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feelings expressed →
“Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the...”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne (via ireadintothings)
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“The Internet might be useful for creating revolution, but all it’s creating in...”
– Anthony Hegarty. Read the rest of his “5-10-15-20” entry on Pitchfork. (via ahhday)
“So little of what could happen does happen.”
– Salvador Dali (via vulgivagus)
“I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (via pythons)
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The 100 greatest non-fiction books →
youmightfindyourself:
Art
The Shock of the New by Robert Hughes (1980) Hughes charts the story of modern art, from cubism to the avant garde
The Story of Art by Ernst Gombrich (1950) The most popular art book in history. Gombrich examines the technical and aesthetic problems confronted by artists since the dawn of time
Ways of Seeing by John Berger (1972) A study of the ways in which we...
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“What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at...”
– Bob Dylan (via quotethequote)
