denverteachers
Bio
I'm a freelance writer who holds a Ph.D. in English Studies from Illinois State University. I taught literature and writing courses at the college level for ten years, and have also worked on college campuses in the areas of enrollment management and faculty development. My articles have appeared in several academic publications, including Issues in Writing, WPA: Writing Program Administration, Academic Exchange Quarterly, and Writing on the Edge.
Favourite Philosopher
Ludwig Wittgenstein, D.H. Lawrence, Oscar Wilde
Favourite Quotations
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
? Bertrand Russell
“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”
? Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
“When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.”
? Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class - whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual”
? Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”
? Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”
? Adam Smith
“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”
? Friedrich Nietzsche
? Bertrand Russell
“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”
? Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
“When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.”
? Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class - whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual”
? Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”
? Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”
? Adam Smith
“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”
? Friedrich Nietzsche
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