Category: Analects

Analects of the Core: Burke on engrossing ideas

March 28, 2011 at 10:13 am

When men have suffered their imaginations to be long affected with any idea, it so wholly engrosses them as to shut out by degrees almost every other, and to break down every partition of the mind which would confine it. – Edmund Burke, On the Sublime and Beautiful, (“Of the Passions Which Belong to Society“)

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Analects of the Core: Burke on the sublimity of pain

March 25, 2011 at 10:09 am

WHATEVER is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the […]

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Analects of the Core: Cervantes on having one’s own fish to fry

March 10, 2011 at 10:40 am

Let them eat the lie and swallow it with their bread. Whether the two were lovers or no, they’ll have accounted to God for it by now. I have my own fish to fry. – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, author of Don Quixote

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Analects of the Core: Coleridge on nations and mankind

March 10, 2011 at 10:37 am

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Unsourced

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Analects of the Core: Van Gogh on fallibility

March 9, 2011 at 11:17 am

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again. -Vincent Van Gogh

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Analects of the Core: Bourdieu on successful ideologies

March 7, 2011 at 2:08 pm

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicit silence. — sociologist Pierre Bourdieu

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Core Ecoquotes Project, pt.1

March 4, 2011 at 5:49 pm

On behalf of the Ecolympics organizing committee, Prof. Daniel Hudon writes… Thanks to Prof. Stephanie Nelson for kicking off the Core Eco-Quotes Project in conjunction with the Ecolympics. She points out that the philosopher Lao Tzu has some great eco-quotes, such as this one, from the 8 section of the Tao Te Ching: Best to […]

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Analects of the Core: Austen on vanity and pride

March 4, 2011 at 12:44 pm

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. -Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 5. Lynn Festa will be lecturing to the students of […]

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Analects of the Core: Virgil on Euryalus’ death

March 3, 2011 at 3:56 pm

“Euryalus, Poor fellow, where did I lose you? Where shall I Hunt for you? Back all the winding way, That maze of woodland?” – Virgil, The Aeneid (Boox IX, 551-554)

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Analects of the Core: Virgil on Aeneas’ last words to Dido

March 2, 2011 at 11:16 am

“Dido, do forlorn, The story then that came to me was true, That you were out of life, had met your end By your own hand. Was I, was I the cause? I swear by heaven’s stars, by the high gods, By any certainty below the earth, I left your land against my will, my […]

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