"Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate 'relationship' involving (ideally) two successful careeris...
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
More Wendell Berry quotes
"Until modern times, we focused a great deal of the best of our thought upon rituals of return to the human condition. Seeking enlightenment or the Pro...
"People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They...
"But even in the much-publicized rebellion of the young against the materialism of the affluent society, the consumer mentality is too often still inta...
"The growth of the exploiters' revolution on this continent has been accompanied by the growth of the idea that work is beneath human dignity, particul...
"Dance,' they told me, and I stood still,and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, I danced.'Pray,' they said, and I laughed,covering...
"One possibility is just to tag along with the fantasists in government and industry who would have us believe that we can pursue our ideals of affluen...
"It could be said that a liberal education has the nature of a bequest, in that it looks upon the student as the potential heir of a cultural birthrigh...
"Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken by as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of ...
"We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough...
"The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood ...
"You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
"Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to...
"As Gill says, "every man is called to give love to the work of his hands. Every man is called to be an artist." The small family farm is one of the la...
"Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures...