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Old man seated and writing in a book by Guido Reni
Reflections

I Dip My Pen in the Blackest Ink

I am sure that a certain truth will be said through me, though I should…
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Other

The Vocation of the Intellectual

I understand the vocation of the intellectual as trying to turn easy answers into critical…
By Cornel West
Moses with the Ten Commandments by Rembrandt
Philosophy/Reflections

Speak Your Latent Conviction

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your…
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Democritus and Heraclitus by Peter Paul Rubens
Reflections

The Rational Man and The Intuitive Man

There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by…
By Friedrich Nietzsche
Reflections

Intuition

The magnetism which all original action exerts is explained when we inquire the reason of…
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer on his Death Bed by Vicente Palmaroli
Prose

The Truth

I can imagine someone copying out how Felix Arvers died. It was in a hospital.…
By Rainer Maria Rilke
Poetry

Ah, Be Not False

Ah, be not false, sweet Splendor!
Be true, be good;
Be wise as thou art…
By Richard Watson Gilder
Christmas Eve in Siberia by Jacek Malczewski
Prose

The Most Extravagant Possibilities

In this city they nonchalantly abandon themselves to the most extravagant possibilities. In their usual…
By Rainer Maria Rilke
Poetry

The Fool’s Prayer

The royal feast was done; the King
Sought some new sport to banish care,
And…
By Edward Rowland Sill

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