Philippine education is in crisis
If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.
I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.
Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.
The function of criticism should not be confused with the function of reform.
The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.
I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something--or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip.
There is an unbroken continuum from the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the mind, from the wisdom of the individual to the wisdom of the race.
I was blessed with good genetics, but my essence is very happy and warm and I don’t take my job too seriously. I’m not saving lives here.
I just always dreamed of racing cars, but I didn't think I could do it as a living.
It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the U. S. , quite a few of the ultra-rich have taken to heart the 19th century industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie's comment that it's a disgrace to die wealthy.