The Israeli philosopher Avishai Margalit has suggested that the important thing is not a person’s identity but his or her identifications.   Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life

A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar.

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

His physiognomy had an air of requesting your attention, which it rewarded or not, according to the charm you found in a blue eye of remarkable fixedness and a jaw of somewhat angular mold, which is supposed to bespeak resolution.

Written By Henry James

About us

Featured posts

Featured Topics

Quick Links