#aphorism

Few things are more absurd than wise saws originally designed to inculcate or maintain the social needs of a society long past - when they are applied to today. ↗

— Idries Shah

#big-picture #lack-of-knowledge #lack-of-perspective #rigidity #design

Hindoo wisdom long ago regarded the world as the dream of Brahma. Must we hold with Fichte that it is the individual dream of each individual ego? Every fool would then be a cosmogonic poet producing the firework of the universe under the dome of the infinite. ↗

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

#humor #philosophy #dreams

I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#education

Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight. ↗

— Marina Tsvetaeva

#russian-poetry #tsvetaeva #wisdom #freedom

If you have decided to sail to the sea with great courage and determination, even the storm on the horizon will step aside! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#courage

The shortest distance between two points is always under construction. ↗

— Rebecca McClanahan

#life #life

You can't have love and honor, and neither will bring you peace. ↗