Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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22 published records
01 / belief
“If I think of three of your main interests — Girard, Brodsky from then the Soviet Union, Miłosz — they’re all individuals in exile.”
02 / recommendation
“I look at it periodically, but it never interests me. I love Hugo.”
03 / belief
“If we think of your own career — you’re, at age 17, a reporter, and now you’re writing books about continental philosophy.”
04 / belief
“I haven’t spoken to them, but I think that what they’re going through has got resonances.”
05 / belief
“In some ways, they seem more free-thinking to me, and in ways I object to. But if you want to see your real Twitter pile-on, praise Trump in some manner, even for something good he did, like Operation Warp Speed, one of the few things he did where I would say that was really wonderful.”
06 / belief
“I think that comedies give you a chance to play with it, and I think that that’s a large part of their delight.”
07 / belief
“There are plenty of official claims that during the Soviet Union, people simply didn’t believe. But now, today, “the war is okay” is, for the most part, the winning message in Russia — I think.”
08 / belief
“I think that that’s one of the most interesting explorations that he had in his books.”
09 / belief
“I’m interested in big questions. I think a lot of people aren’t. A lot of interviewers aren’t.”
10 / belief
“” If you quizzed him more thoroughly, he would say, “No, not always” or whatever, but I think that that has sometimes been tackled on by people as a flaw.”
11 / belief
“If I keep decent health, I feel within five years, I’ll have been able to see the significant cities of the New World. That will make me happy, and I’ll write a book about it — the process of doing it, and what I thought the major questions were, and what I learned.”
12 / belief
“If we valued intelligent thinking, intelligent speaking in our public lives, I think we’d be less likely to get the kind of candidates that we’re getting.”
13 / evaluation
“The children had to call and tell them that their 60th wedding anniversary had just happened because it went by without them noticing.”
14 / evaluation
“René was not self-exiled. He came here after the war because it was a place where he could get a job.”
15 / evaluation
“I think that there are too many variables in almost any equation to make it foolproof in that sense.”
16 / evaluation
“Because Buddhism, at least on the surface, is an attempt to escape the cycle of mimetic desire.”
17 / evaluation
“I don’t know about false consciousness, but the momentum of a feeling can drive one into a mob without one being aware that that is exactly what they’re doing.”
18 / evaluation
“[laughs] He was sympathetic with the students, but as he commented, they complain because they have too much.”
19 / evaluation
“Again, I think the problem is, the Russians I know, my Russian friends — they know all of this stuff, but how do you get through to the others?”
20 / commitment
“Basically, the head of the Michigan State University Press’s series — when they approached me and asked me to think of an idea for writing about René, I noted that there had never been anything weaving together the life and the work, so the only reason that it happened is because I did it.”
21 / observation
“It’s this tendency for people to just join in to meet two momentums. It happens very fast in the US, I think, because so many of us are on social media.”
22 / evaluation
“What I concluded in that chapter was that Jean Michel Oughourlian, having been a second-generation Holocaust survivor — that had impressed him. That what seemed outrageous to us — the idea that René had seen a lynching — was not so outrageous to him because it had actually happened in the not-too-distant memory.”