Would it not be doing her an act of justice, and the reading public a good turn, to collect such salient expressions of wisdom and compile them in a single volume?
As the bioethicist Dr. Leon R. Kass put it, we should pay careful attention to our gut responses to biotechnology: repugnance, he wrote, is "the emotional expression of deep wisdom, beyond reason's power to fully articulate it".
The person who chooses to lead a political life, and who aims at the fullest expression of practical wisdom, has a standard for deciding what level of resources he needs: he should have friends, property, and honors in sufficient quantities to allow his practical wisdom to express itself without impediment.
Freedom of expression without wisdom may well end up losing its purpose.Rajiv ThindChristchurch, New ZealandSIR – The fact is that those newspapers which chose to publish satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad crossed the line that separates civil society from barbarism.
With lines like "What matters are the things you leave behind," and "Treating each day as our last day," the song embraces clichés that Ms. Luker elevated into expressions of emotional wisdom.
There is a certain type of movie poster showing an array of actor faces – including that of Will Smith – in various sizes looking in various directions with soft-focus expressions of smiley wisdom that should trigger an alarm bell louder than Motörhead.
In thinking about this address, I returned to Rilke's "Letters to a Young Poet," the ultimate expression of intergenerational literary wisdom.
At last I fished from the inner darkness some proper noun from Koppel's question and lurched into a generic expression of the conventional wisdom regarding the person corresponding to that noun.
For example, I now see my father's strictness as we were growing up as an expression of love and wisdom, and a reflection of his desire to spare us the pain he'd experienced.
We need more openness to public expression of religious values and wisdom (the partial truth of the right) offered in an accessible language to people of different faith systems and we need stricter institutional boundaries between religion and state (the left's partial truth) to insure genuine religious liberty.
One expression of that project is Sinister Wisdom 93.
