Friday, June 11, 2021

This Is Water

It's 'commencement' time again:

"It isn't really the capacity to think, but rather about the choice of what to think about."

"Blind certainty — a closed-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even knows he's locked up."

"The real value of education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over."

-- David Foster Wallace