#wisdo

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot. ↗

— Mark Twain

#man #recovery #right #wisdom #wrong

it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom ↗

— Paul Auster

#contemporary

The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method? ↗

— Confucius

#wisdom #zen #zen

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?" Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason. ↗

— Shunryu Suzuki

#philosophy #suffering #wisdom #zen #zen-buddhism

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#empathy #intuition #prophet #wisdom #intuition

Wherever I go, I run into myself. ↗