Ideally, society is a dance, and every society has its own choreography that is passed down the generations. - Yi-Fu Tuan

A special target of examination ought to be how societies differ in making room for pauses in the midst of life, for it is during such pauses that individuals are able to appraise the meaning of what they have undergone.

Only God creates ex nihilo. Humans can only create out of something that already exists, which means there has to be an earlier destruction phase.

...the Oxford system, which did not require students to take set courses or be tested except at the end of three years, encouraged them to read widely, attend public lectures on all sorts of subjects, and above all, talk to one another in small gatherings until dawn breaks or until they ran out of shillings to put in the gas meter. Without knowing it I acquired a well-rounded, if undisciplined, liberal arts education.