Guilherme F. Lima

See my GitLab and GitHub pages, and also GitHub/TeleMidia.

“An education, which requires the training of the mind in rational thoughtfulness, goes against the grain. It isn’t easy. It isn’t even ‘natural’, as we usually mean the word. To live, even to live an ordinary and comfortable life, requires the practice of rational thoughtfulness no more than it requires the practice on a violin. You can come and go, get and spend, work and play, choose and reject, rise and fall, live and die, entirely in response to the suggestions without [any of] the appetites within.” — Richard Mitchell, The Underground Grammarian, The Graves of Academe (1981)

“Uncertainty, in the presence of vivid hopes and fears, is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.” — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy (1945)

“However nearly complete the victory of mechanised industry may be, it can never obliterate the fact of human responsibility, & there will always be many who will choose to be masters of their work & in their own workshops rather than masters of other men working under sub-human conditions, that is to say conditions which deny them intellectual responsibility.” — Eric Gill, An Essay on Typography (1931)

“There is no style store; style is organic to the person doing the writing, as much as part of him as his hair, or if he is bald, his lack of it. Trying to add style is like adding a toupee. At first glance the formerly bald man looks young and even handsome. But at second glance—and with a toupee there’s always a second glance—he doesn’t look quite right. The problem is not that he doesn’t look well groomed; he does, and we can only admire the wigmaker ‘s skill. The point is that he doesn’t look like himself.” — William Zinsser, On Writing Well (2006)