All friendly feelings toward others are an extension of the friendly feelings a person has for herself.
Aristotle
#twisdom #self-respect
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Category Archives: anthropology
Crazy Times
Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#twisdom #insanity #politics
Thinking’s Paradox
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
Static Quo
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
Dangerous Shelter
The most dangerous worldviews are the worldviews of those who have never viewed the world.
Alexander von Humboldt
#twisdom #experience #openmindedness
Docile Ignorance
The ignorant are governable.
J.J. Most
#twisdom #ignorance
Honest Faith
There lives more faith in honest doubt than in half the creeds.
Tennyson
#twisdom #humility
Expensive Consent
As there are costs for non-compliance, there are costs for compliance, viz., the death of the mind. Judith Butler
#twisdom #freedom
Not Logic
What is simple for our understanding is not necessarily so for our will.
H.Bergson
#twisdom #feeling
Art SeesÂ
Their function has been to make us see what we do not naturally perceive: They are the artists. H. Bergson
#twisdom #art
