Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
#twisdom #critique
Category Archives: political science
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
Crazy Times
Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#twisdom #insanity #politics
Docile Ignorance
The ignorant are governable.
J.J. Most
#twisdom #ignorance
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
