We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
Heraclitus
#twisdom #play
We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
Heraclitus
#twisdom #play
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform pause and reflect.
Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.
Heraclitus
#twisdom #listening #mindfulness
It is in changing that things find purpose.
Heraclitus
#twisdom #change
All friendly feelings toward others are an extension of the friendly feelings a person has for herself.
Aristotle
#twisdom #self-respect
Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#twisdom #insanity #politics
Never am I less alone than when I am by myself, never am I more active then when I do nothing.
Cato
#twisdom #thinking #action
It is not because things are difficult that we do not venture. It is because we do not venture that things are difficult.
Seneca
#twisdom #action #courage
The most dangerous worldviews are the worldviews of those who have never viewed the world.
Alexander von Humboldt
#twisdom #experience #openmindedness
The ignorant are governable.
J.J. Most
#twisdom #ignorance