Two Thoughts (4 - 10 August)

Rik Wouters (Belgian, 1882 – 1916) | Education (1912)

Sunday, 4 August

Two thoughts from Walker Percy

“You can get all A’s and still flunk life.”

“We love those who know the worst of us and don’t turn their face away.”

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Monday, 5 August

Two thoughts from Czesław Miłosz

"In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot."

“Men will clutch illusions when they have nothing else to hold onto.”

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Tuesday, 6 August

Two thoughts from Joseph Heller

"When I grow up I want to be a little boy."

"There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to."

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Wednesday, 7 August

Two thoughts from David Sarnoff

"Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe."

"Generally speaking, anything that the human mind can conceive can ultimately be produced."

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Thursday, 8 August

Two thoughts from Mikhail Bulgakov

"I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person."

“Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion.”

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Friday, 9 August

Two thoughts from Edna O’Brien

"It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates every corner of our existence."

"Sometimes one word can recall a whole span of life."

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Saturday, 10 August

Two thoughts from Henry Sidgwick

“Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school.”

"One has to kill a few of one’s natural selves to let the rest grow — a very painful slaughter of innocents."

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