The real social function of philosophy is to prevent mankind from losing itself in the ideas which the existing organization of society instills into its members.
M. Horkheimer
#twisdom #freedom #critique
Category Archives: human community
Face to Face
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde
#twisdom #conflict
Nature’s Comrade
The philosopher neither obeys nor commands; she seeks to be at one with nature.
H. Bergson
#twisdom #philo #intuition
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
Communal Residual
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#twisdom #conformity
Tending Love
Your task is not to seek for love,but to find the barriers within yourself you built against it.
Rumi
#twisdom #love
Self Art
Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow up in him!
Nietzsche
#twisdom #autoMediation
No Hate
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
MLKJ
#twisdom #peace
Unequal Crime
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
Honore de Balzac
#twisdom #inequality
