When it is forgotten that the first word of political reason is the recognition of the contingency of the political order, every absurdity proves rational.
— Jacques Rancière
Tag Archives: freedom
Wealthy Poverty
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
Kant
#twisdom #wealth
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
Static Quo
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
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
Executive Limit
Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.
Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what to will.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#twisdom #will
Clench of Cliché
Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.
Rumi
#twisdom #freethought
Pretended War
The loss of liberty at home is charged against provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James Madison
#twisdom #freedom
