“There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.”
“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”
“Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless.”
Fall Conference 2024“Tribalism & Cosmopolitanism”
“I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world ... Out of gratitude, I want to call my book on political theories Amor Mundi.”
“It is, in fact, far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.”
“Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.”
Those who don't like thinking should at least rearrange their prejudices from time to time.
- Luther Burbank