The study of the past is the main portal through which culture is acquired.
Vladimir Nabokov, contemning readers who “identified” with characters in fiction, remarked that the best readers identify with the artist.
[Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the inability to value what unites them.
Those who consider themselves good teachers probably aren’t.
The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott notes that one of the signs of being cold today is that one knows what one doesn’t have to know.
For reasons no one has yet explained, the Internet is at once riveting and a great killer of concentration.
The acquisition of culture requires repose, sitting quietly in a room with a book, or alone with one’s thoughts even any crowded concert or art museum.
It is difficult to be ambitious without also being envious.
There is no word equivalent to ‘cuckold’ for women.
Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.