The Past-Present Quotes

“You will be educated, which means that you will be interested where others are bored, that you will notice unities where others experience randomness, and that you will intend meanings where others are just spouting words. For exactly that is supposed to be the result of becoming literate: The world becomes a thick texture of significance that you know how to “access.”--Eva Brann”
― Eva Brann, The Past-Present: Selected Writings Of Eva Brann

“Wonder is the sense, which comes in a flash but won’t go away, that things are not as straightforward as they seem, that the ordinary way, or explanation and argument leaves you with unbearable contradictions and impossibilities.”
― Eva Brann, The Past-Present: Selected Writings Of Eva Brann

“In learning as in traveling and, of course, in lovemaking, all the charm lies in not coming too quickly to the point, but in meandering around for a while.”
― Eva Brann, The Past-Present: Selected Writings Of Eva Brann