We do not call engineering a failure if a bridge collapses.
Roscoe Pound
#twisdom #law #progress #science
Monthly Archives: April 2014
Collective Judgment
The people are apt to deceive themselves in the abstract, but rarely in the specific.
Niccolò Machiavelli
#twisdom #politics #philo
Living Opinion
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
James Russell Lowell
#twisdom #change #openness
Sustainable Change
Change your opinions, keep your principles; change your leaves, keep your roots.
Victor Hugo
#twisdom #change #growth
Economic Religion
What was called heresy in the Middle Ages is called communism today.
Thurman Arnold (1937)
#twisdom #econ #GreatDepression
Plato’s Last Tweet
You are an idea, man.
A.R.T.
#twisdom #Plato #philo
Fallibility’s Fruit
Science, like life, is active fallibility.
A.R.T.
#twisdom #ed #philo #science
Ideal Realism
We must make our what ought-to-be from our achievements rather than from our failures.
Roscoe Pound
#twisdom #law #progress
Birds in Spring
Who silences the birds can’t stop the spring.
Wer das Zwitschern verbietet, kann den Frühling dabei nicht verhindern.
@meta_bene
#twisdom #Friede #reverence #Ehrfurcht
Electoral Paradox
We despise politicians and revere elections.
David Van Reybrouck
#twisdom #politics #philo
