We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
Heraclitus
#twisdom #play
Category Archives: anthropology
Think Different
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
#twisdom #critique
The Living Listen
Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.
Heraclitus
#twisdom #listening #mindfulness
Change Makes
It is in changing that things find purpose.
Heraclitus
#twisdom #change
Friend Yourself
All friendly feelings toward others are an extension of the friendly feelings a person has for herself.
Aristotle
#twisdom #self-respect
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
