The ignorant are governable.
J.J. Most
#twisdom #ignorance
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Category Archives: political science
Public Reason
J’écris pour agir.
I write in order to act.
Voltaire
#twisdom #action #philo
Honest Faith
There lives more faith in honest doubt than in half the creeds.
Tennyson
#twisdom #humility
Expensive Consent
As there are costs for non-compliance, there are costs for compliance, viz., the death of the mind. Judith Butler
#twisdom #freedom
Philosophy & Unlearning
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
Art Sees
Their function has been to make us see what we do not naturally perceive: They are the artists. H. Bergson
#twisdom #art
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
Pain’s Gain
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass
#twisdom #struggle
