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
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Category Archives: history
Public Reason
J’écris pour agir.
I write in order to act.
Voltaire
#twisdom #action #philo
Living Ideas
It is foolish to reckon that ideas are present only when they explicitly declare themselves.
Molly Worthen
#twisdom #ideas
Second-Hand World
Between consciousness & existence stand meanings, designs, communications which other men have passed on.
C.W. Mills
#twisdom #mediation
Pretended War
The loss of liberty at home is charged against provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James Madison
#twisdom #freedom
Treasonable Silence
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile but morally treasonable.
Theodore Roosevelt
#twisdom #freedom
Whose War
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
Orwell
#twisdom #peaceEcon #inequality
Swine & Science
So far the pearls of science have been cast before swine, who have given us in return millionaires and slums, armaments and the desolation of war.
Unknown
#twisdom #inequality
Record of Authority
The world has suffered more from leaders and authorities than from the masses.
John Dewey
#twisdom #democracy
We Babies
Man, a child in understanding of himself, has placed in his hands physical tools of incalculable power.
John Dewey
#twisdom #selfknowledge
