Inspiration for our Dostoevsky illustration is from the Biographical Notes section of "The Brothers Karamazov." It's a wonderful passage that stands on its own as a poignant piece of literature. "Notes of the Life of the deceased Priest and Monk,...
"Night and Day," an excerpt, by Virginia Woolf Illustration by Evan Robertson. “I don’t care much whether I ever get to know anything—but I want to work out something in figures—something that hasn’t got to do with human beings....
SONG OF NATURE Ralph Waldo Emerson Mine are the night and morning,The pits of air, the gulf of space,The sportive sun, the gibbous moon,The innumerable days. I hide in the solar glory,I am dumb in the pealing song,I rest...
"After all I have no nationality and am not anxious to claim any. Individuality is more than nationality. 'You are you and I am I,' says Confucius.” - Sui Sin Far. Sui Sin Far was the daughter of a British...
"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that." - John Stuart Mill. From his classic philosophical treatise On Liberty: "He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. His...
In a pathetic bid to pretend I wasn’t working past 11 pm, I recently had the Showtime period piece "The Tudors" on in the background, and stumbled on this surprising scene. It stood out in stark contrast to most of...
