WIST Quotations1d ago

A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords; and the little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1881), “Virginibus Puerisque, Part 2”

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Carolannie3d ago
#Restoration #HumanNature #Sustainability
"If today’s children enjoy only minimal interaction with the natural world, nature will not feature in the culture they produce—in their art, music, literature, poetry."
Too many people live in cities that have hermetically sealed their minds from nature. We don't know where our food, our air, our water, come from. We often end up believing that things like robots and AI will save us from extinction. This belief is hastening our extinction.
https://howlettk.substack.com/p/does-it-really-matter-whats-a-bee
When nature fades from memory, it disappears from the world

A story about bees, cultural extinction and the beauty of paying attention

Natural Connection
Meike Stoverock4d ago
Für jede Seite schreiben muss ich vier Stunden recherchieren. Mein nächstes Buch kommt dann 2087 raus. #HumanNature
Show threadMindset Monkeys4d ago
Neuroscience suggests that love and cocaine activate the same areas of our brain's reward system. Meanwhile, philosophy argues that love is a defining human quality. So, which perspective resonates with you more—the scientific analysis or the emotional experience? #Love #Science #Philosophy #HumanNature
WIST Quotations5d ago

A quotation from Wendell Berry

However, I do belong in the fullest sense of the word to a large group that is having a vast and ever-increasing effect on the world. It is known as the human race. I am aware that as a member of that group I am in the worst possible company: communists, fascists and totalitarians of all sorts, militarists and tyrants, exploiters, vandals, gluttons, ignoramuses, murderers, thieves, and liars, men for whose birth the creation is worse off and for whose lives other men will still be suffering a hundred years from now. The price of admission to this group is great, and until death not fully known. The cost of getting out is extreme. I find, therefore, no reasonable alternative to membership. But since I am a member on such exacting terms, I will not allow my involvement with this group to remain accidental, but will give my whole allegiance to it and work for its betterment.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Speech (1968-02-10), “A Statement Against the War in Vietnam,” Kentucky Conference on the War and the Draft, University of Kentucky

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WIST QuotationsOct 2

A quotation from Ben Franklin

What knowing Judgment, or what piercing Eye,
Can Man’s mysterious Maze of Falshood try?
Intriguing Man, of a suspicious Mind,
Man only knows the Cunning of his Kind;
With equal Wit can counter-work his Foes,
And Art with Art, and Fraud with Fraud oppose.
Then heed ye Fair, e’er you their Cunning prove,
And think of Treach’ry, while they talk of Love.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1742 ed.)

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WIST QuotationsOct 1

A quotation from William James

Without any exception known to me, militarist authors take a highly mystical view of their subject, and regard war as a biological or sociological necessity, uncontrolled by ordinary psychological checks or motives. When the time of development is ripe the war must come, reason or no reason, for the justifications pleaded are invariably fictions. War is, in short, a permanent human obligation.

William James (1842-1910) American psychologist and philosopher
Essay (1910-02), “The Moral Equivalent of War,” Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 77 (1910-10)

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Quick QuotesOct 1

“...Suddenly I got shivers down my spine thinking about how many different people one and the same person can be.”
― Janne Teller

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WIST QuotationsOct 1

A quotation from Bill Watterson

   CALVIN: Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their head.
   HOBBES: I wonder which you are.
   CALVIN: I pragmatically turn my whims into principles!

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1995-08-11)

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WIST QuotationsSep 26

A quotation from Orwell

The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1941-09), “The Art of Donald McGill,” Horizon Magazine

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Essay (1941-09), "The Art of Donald McGill," Horizon Magazine - Orwell, George | WIST Quotations

The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. See Churchill.

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