#foolishness

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#conformity #fool #foolishness #law #rule

If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#futility #shakespeare #shakespeare

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness. ↗

— Sidney Hook

#does #dogmatism #foolishness #idealism #ignorance

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment. ↗

— Horace

#little #lovely #mix #moment #plans

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#concealed #discover #favor #foolishness #forsake

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes ↗

— Robert Jordan

#war #fool

He's acting as foolish as a kitten... but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in a while. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#humor #wisdom #humor

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . . ↗

— Nick Cave

#cannibals #company #dining #eating #food

Dzieje kultury wykazują, ze głupota jest siostrą bliźniaczą rozumu, ona rośnie najbujniej nie na glebie dziewiczej ignorancji , lecz na gruncie uprawnym siódmym potem doktorów i profesorów. Wielkie absurdy nie są wymyślane przez tych, których rozum krząta się wokół spraw codziennych. Nic dziwnego zatem, że właśnie najintensywniejsi myśliciele bywali producentami największego głupstwa. / The history of culture shows that foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom. It does not flourish on the fields of pure ignorance but on the fields tirelessly plowed by doctors and professors. Great absurdities do not flourish where one is busy with everyday life. No wonder that sometimes most vigorous thinkers come up with utmost stupidities. (Dziennik 1956, XIX, Thursday) ↗

— Witold Gombrowicz

#stupidity #wisdom #business

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom. ↗

— François de La Rochefoucauld

#passion #wisedom #men