Greig Roselli — Teacher, Writer, Philosophy Sprinkles Maker

In this quote post, I lay into a pithy proverb coined by a Roman dramatist about taking a hint (and when to take it). ” A word to the wise ...

Ancient Ruins “You Greeks are like children.” An Egyptian priest has reprimanded Solon, a Sixth Century Greek diplomat, about why Egypt ...

The Moviegoer The swamps are still burning at Chef Menteur and the sky over Gentilly is the color of ashes (p.17).  Walker Percy, A...

Alfred E. Neuman , the poster boy for the humor magazine Mad (1952 - ) "The reason many people are lost in thought is because it&#...

First of all I prefer thought. This is the basic thing. I really think manual skill is secondary …. It’s taking things from reality. Everyt...

Joseph Campbell, Hero With a  Thousand Faces   (1949), page 8 PDF Copy for Printing

The only way to go beyond work is through work. It is not that work itself is valuable; we surmount work by work. The real value of wor...

William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1590), Act Two, Scene One, Line 1175 EZ Link for Sharing

  It's humiliating to speak only in code, only in a punished, subaltern idiom; but it's humiliating to stand outside that vernac...

Socrates with folks in Athens in Raphael's painting "The School of Athens" A quote from Socrates on perplexing others . ...

a word to the wise is sufficient dictum sapienti sat est Attributed to Plautus , Roman dramatist and Terence , Roman poet PDF Co...

Read a timely quote from Ovid, a Roman poet who lived in the first century C.E.: Time is usually the best medicine Temporis ars medicin...

Rosalind Russel as Auntie Mame (1958) Life is a banquet and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death. ~Auntie Mame  What is so ...

Henry Caseroti,  Cock-A-Doodle-Doo , 2010 Every cock crows on its own dung hill Miguel Cervante s , Don Quixote PDF Copy for Print...

In this post, we present a quote by James R. Kincaid on the production of childhood innocence in contemporary culture. The Author as a Child...

On Walking in Someone Else's Shoes: "There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there ar...

Read about how the song "Origin of Love" from the musical movie Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a primer on Plato's theory of bis...

Photo by  JW  on  Unsplash A repost from NPR by Jessica Love of a story about grammar - when gender sometimes matters in language. ...

  “Liza sent us a wheel of Brie.” “That’s nice,” she said, “but you know what? Brie gives me terribly loose bowels.” He hitched up his ...

In this quote from Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle, an unwritten law about capitalism is illustrated. Subscribe to stones of erasmus ...