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Brave New World founded my nascent moral philosophy and became the subject of my college admissions essay,
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
“All truly great thoughts,” Nietzsche informs his reader in The Twilight of the Idols, “are conceived while walking.”
John Kaag • Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are
The main message of Jesus, I believed, is that mercy trumps justice every time.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
The dream of a Liberal (arts) education—which is the scaled, democratic form of the Keatsian ideal of negative capability—cannot hold up when liberalism itself is held to be suspect.