"We are all on the same ship, and that ship has leaks in it. We must all stick together, or we will all fall apart, for we are inextricably linked together."
"While the unexamined life is not worth living, the examined life is a necessarily painful one to lead."
"What does it mean to be human? To be human is to suffer, to shudder in the face of life's mysteries and to struggle with that mystery."
West quotes William Butler Yeats who said, "it takes more courage to dig deep into the abyss of one's own soul than it takes for a soldier to fight on the battlefield."
"Teachers must forge a courage in themselves and attempt to make it contagious with their students to move from learning that is too hollow, too shallow, too quantitative, too standard-oriented."
"Lack of democracy: voicelessness. Democratic reality: a sense of being an agent in the world.
"West quotes Emerson as saying that all forms of imitation are suicide. Therefore, each must find his or her own distinctive voice and practice it and "bounce it up against other voices within the community like a jazz quartet."
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