There lives more faith in honest doubt than in half the creeds.
Tennyson
#twisdom #humility
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Category Archives: anthropology
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 Sees
Their function has been to make us see what we do not naturally perceive: They are the artists. H. Bergson
#twisdom #art
Living Ideas
It is foolish to reckon that ideas are present only when they explicitly declare themselves.
Molly Worthen
#twisdom #ideas
Artistry
Art can never be understood but can only be seen as a kind of magic.
Bill Reid
#twisdom #art
Best Enemy
Our enemies are our best teachers.
Buddhist saying
#twisdom #selfKnowledge
The New
No complication of the mathematical order with itself, however elaborate, can introduce an atom of novelty into the world.
Henri Bergson
#twisdom #creativity
Thinking Bodies
Man, like every living being, thinks continually without knowing it; what rises to consciousness is but the smallest part.
Nietzsche
#twisdom #bodyMind
Communal Residual
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#twisdom #conformity
