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“Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.”
Joseph Epstein“Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.”
Joseph Epstein“Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.”
Joseph Epstein“What's cool about Spider-Man is that it's everybody - anyone, you put on the suit, anyone believes that you're Spider-Man. That's what's charming about the character. He's anyone. He's a huge nerd that ends up being this huge superhero.”
Jake Epstein“There is no word equivalent to 'cuckold' for women.”
Joseph Epstein“Enlightenment does not mean getting rid of anything. It means changing one's frame of reference so that all things become enlightening.”
Mark Epstein“The acquisition of culture requires repose, sitting quietly in a room with a book, or alone with one's thoughts even any crowded concert or art museum.”
Joseph Epstein“The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott notes that one of the signs of being cold today is that one knows what one doesn't have to know.”
Joseph Epstein“For reasons no one has yet explained, the Internet is at once riveting and a great killer of concentration.”
Joseph Epstein“Those who consider themselves good teachers probably aren't.”
Joseph Epstein“[Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the inability to value what unites them.”
Joseph Epstein