"The only philistinism that counted was the kind that deforms the heart, trapping us in an attitude of scorn and fear until scorn and fear are all we know."

Zadie Smith

(no subject)

Just because we did it doesn't mean we're the kind of people who would
do that.

Does it?

link

http://www.nextbook.org/cultural/feature.html?id=849&page=1

quote

" 'True courage is often nothing other than the expression of a metaphysical conviction, so to speak, of our own superfluousness."

You Jew, Georg thought without animosity, and then: perhaps he's not so wrong.'

-- Arthur Schnitzler, The Road Into the Open

Advice, Part II

Yes, one must choose with the heart. And the heart desires riches.