Maxioms Pet

X
  •   13  /  19  

    Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.

Share to:

You May Also Like   /   View all maxioms

  ( comments )
  9  /  12  

Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves read more

Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

  ( comments )
  16  /  14  

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. -David read more

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. -David Starr Jordan.

  ( comments )
  9  /  20  

Never practice two vices at once.

Never practice two vices at once.

  ( comments )
  14  /  41  

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

  ( comments )
  30  /  28  

There is always a touch of sadness around the most beautiful things in life !.

There is always a touch of sadness around the most beautiful things in life !.

  ( comments )
  19  /  24  

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

  ( comments )
  19  /  18  

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

  ( comments )
  8  /  14  

Look alive. Here comes a buzzard.

Look alive. Here comes a buzzard.

  ( comments )
  13  /  14  

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

Maxioms Web Pet