To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.
Goethe
#twisdom #courage
Category Archives: philosophy
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
Rare Freedom
Although we are free whenever we are willing to get back to ourselves, it seldom happens that we are willing.
Henri Bergson
#twisdom #freedom #creativity
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
Timeless Works
Some books are undeservedly forgotten, none are undeservedly remembered.
W.H. Auden
#twisdom #timelessness
Self Friendship
Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.
Hannah Arendt
#twisdom #ethics #thinking
Seas of Language
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by language.
Wittgenstein
#twisdom #language #philo
