Term
Wisdom
used in 42 texts across the archive
“Wisdom, we can say, is the bringing to bear of the paradoxical nature of human existence as a means of deferral of sacrifice.”
In use
“What we should dare to call the beginning of wisdom is the realization that at the origin, significant and sacred are synonymous.”
“The new urbanity might be historical wisdom, and it might provide a model for leaving off defense of civilized standards.”
“We have the “crowd-sourced” wisdom of the inhabitants, but then the “transnational elite” and its hierarchy makes an immediate entrance.”