When something horrible happens, our spontaneous tendency is to search for a meaning. It must mean something… Even if we interpret a catastrophe as a punishment, it makes it easier, in a way, because we know it’s not just some terrifying blind force

— Astra Taylor, Examined Life

…people find that the value placed on them by the organization based on their skills and abilities changes when organizational priorities change.

— Moe Abdula, Ingo Averdunk, Roland Barcia, Kyle Brown, and Ndu Emuchay, The Cloud Adoption Playbook

Using language that is appropriate in one linguistic framework in a different linguistic framework is what causes philosophical confusions and pseudo puzzles, also known as the history of philosophy.

— Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar. . .

I once asked one of my students why, at gatherings, students would sooner look at their phones than talk to one another. “Oh,” he said, “it’s so much easier not to engage!” Encounter involves a risk. It provides inevitable, constant pain as the price for its real satisfactions.

— Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought

By reading, a man already having some wisdom can gain far more; but it is equally true that reading can make a man already inclined toward foolishness far, far more foolish.

— Alan Jacobs, How to Think