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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Life of the Mind, Vol. 1 “Thinking,” Part 3, ch. 18 “The two-in-one” (1977)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/1350/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #amorality #apathy #banality #banalityofevil #decision #evil #good #indecision #lukewarm #moralchoice #moralcode #thoughtlessness #virtue #vice #evildoer #wrongdoing #rightandwrong #moralagency #responsiblity #takeresponsibility
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Life of the Mind, Vol. 1 “Thinking,” Part 3, ch. 18 “The two-in-one” (1977)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/1350/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #amorality #apathy #banality #banalityofevil #decision #evil #good #indecision #lukewarm #moralchoice #moralcode #thoughtlessness #virtue #vice #evildoer #wrongdoing #rightandwrong #moralagency #responsiblity #takeresponsibility
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Life of the Mind, Vol. 1 “Thinking,” Part 3, ch. 18 “The two-in-one” (1977)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/1350/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #amorality #apathy #banality #banalityofevil #decision #evil #good #indecision #lukewarm #moralchoice #moralcode #thoughtlessness #virtue #vice #evildoer #wrongdoing #rightandwrong #moralagency #responsiblity #takeresponsibility
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Life of the Mind, Vol. 1 “Thinking,” Part 3, ch. 18 “The two-in-one” (1977)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/1350/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #amorality #apathy #banality #banalityofevil #decision #evil #good #indecision #lukewarm #moralchoice #moralcode #thoughtlessness #virtue #vice #evildoer #wrongdoing #rightandwrong #moralagency #responsiblity #takeresponsibility
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Life of the Mind, Vol. 1 “Thinking,” Part 3, ch. 18 “The two-in-one” (1977)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/1350/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #amorality #apathy #banality #banalityofevil #decision #evil #good #indecision #lukewarm #moralchoice #moralcode #thoughtlessness #virtue #vice #evildoer #wrongdoing #rightandwrong #moralagency #responsiblity #takeresponsibility
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong. Let them agree to differ; for who knows but what agreeing to differ may not be a form of agreement rather than a form of difference?
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1878-03), “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 38Sourcing, notes: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #age #agreetodisagree #agreement #collaboration #differenceofopinion #disagreement #error #maturity #opinion #perspective #rightandwrong #youth #generations
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong. Let them agree to differ; for who knows but what agreeing to differ may not be a form of agreement rather than a form of difference?
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1878-03), “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 38Sourcing, notes: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #age #agreetodisagree #agreement #collaboration #differenceofopinion #disagreement #error #maturity #opinion #perspective #rightandwrong #youth #generations
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong. Let them agree to differ; for who knows but what agreeing to differ may not be a form of agreement rather than a form of difference?
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1878-03), “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 38Sourcing, notes: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #age #agreetodisagree #agreement #collaboration #differenceofopinion #disagreement #error #maturity #opinion #perspective #rightandwrong #youth #generations
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong. Let them agree to differ; for who knows but what agreeing to differ may not be a form of agreement rather than a form of difference?
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1878-03), “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 38Sourcing, notes: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #age #agreetodisagree #agreement #collaboration #differenceofopinion #disagreement #error #maturity #opinion #perspective #rightandwrong #youth #generations
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Thank goodness they had instructions. I was just about to clamber up! 🚽
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HECUBA: It the duty of a good man to do good everywhere and always to punish the evil men.
[ἙΚΆΒΗ: ἐσθλοῦ γὰρ ἀνδρὸς τῇ δίκῃ θ᾿ ὑπηρετεῖν
καὶ τοὺς κακοὺς δρᾶν πανταχοῦ κακῶς ἀεί.]Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Hecuba [Hekabe; Ἑκάβη], l. 844ff (c. 424 BC) [tr. Theodoridis (2007)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/euripides/76521/
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A quotation from Josh Billings
We are never nearer right than we am when we fear we are rong.
[We are never nearer right than we are when we fear we are wrong.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 156 “Affurisms: Embers on the Harth” (1874)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/billings-josh/76476/
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What is wanted is men, not of policy, but of probity, — who recognize a higher law than the Constitution, or the decision of the majority. The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls, — the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Speech (1854-07-04), “Slavery in Massachusetts,” Anti-Slavery Celebration, Framingham, MassachusettsSourcing, notes: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #citizenry #Constitution #democracy #higherlaw #law #policy #rightandwrong
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#Journal, Day 1215
Monday, 17 July 2023
(Day 77 of #WGAstrike)
(Day 04 of #SAGAFTRAstrike)#boringlife #bosch #halted
#wgastrong #sagaftrastrong
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Here's a challenge.
Take any problem in your life and pretend it's the neutral point in a teeter totter or scale.
On one side is the positive effect of the problem.
On the other side is the negative effect of the problem.
Positive and negative are human perceptions. They aren't really true but all humans have these constructs. The idea is to shift our perception of the problem so that we don't get so upset by it. The problem itself is neutral.
When your perception is that the problem is bad you defend that side of the scale and it tips the balance in that direction.
You don't even see the potential positive effects because you're so busy defending the negative.
Can you see the other side of the scale?
Can you shift your perception enough to see that there may be some positive in that problem?
What will you get out of dealing with that problem?
What comes from your ability to manage your perception?
What comes from learning to allow that problem to be there because you don't have a solution to it?
What comes from learning that you don't need to control everything?
Everything, no matter how bad or how good you perceive it to be has an opposite side. It's only a question of whether you're willing to allow yourself to see it or not.
We aren't changing the problem. We're changing our perception of the problem.
Can you learn to see it differently?
Love to all.
Della
#balance #perception #scale #neutrals #goodandbad #rightandwrong #karma #focus #selfmastery #healing #spirituality
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Here's a challenge.
Take any problem in your life and pretend it's the neutral point in a teeter totter or scale.
On one side is the positive effect of the problem.
On the other side is the negative effect of the problem.
Positive and negative are human perceptions. They aren't really true but all humans have these constructs. The idea is to shift our perception of the problem so that we don't get so upset by it. The problem itself is neutral.
When your perception is that the problem is bad you defend that side of the scale and it tips the balance in that direction.
You don't even see the potential positive effects because you're so busy defending the negative.
Can you see the other side of the scale?
Can you shift your perception enough to see that there may be some positive in that problem?
What will you get out of dealing with that problem?
What comes from your ability to manage your perception?
What comes from learning to allow that problem to be there because you don't have a solution to it?
What comes from learning that you don't need to control everything?
Everything, no matter how bad or how good you perceive it to be has an opposite side. It's only a question of whether you're willing to allow yourself to see it or not.
We aren't changing the problem. We're changing our perception of the problem.
Can you learn to see it differently?
Love to all.
Della
#balance #perception #scale #neutrals #goodandbad #rightandwrong #karma #focus #selfmastery #healing #spirituality
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Here's a challenge.
Take any problem in your life and pretend it's the neutral point in a teeter totter or scale.
On one side is the positive effect of the problem.
On the other side is the negative effect of the problem.
Positive and negative are human perceptions. They aren't really true but all humans have these constructs. The idea is to shift our perception of the problem so that we don't get so upset by it. The problem itself is neutral.
When your perception is that the problem is bad you defend that side of the scale and it tips the balance in that direction.
You don't even see the potential positive effects because you're so busy defending the negative.
Can you see the other side of the scale?
Can you shift your perception enough to see that there may be some positive in that problem?
What will you get out of dealing with that problem?
What comes from your ability to manage your perception?
What comes from learning to allow that problem to be there because you don't have a solution to it?
What comes from learning that you don't need to control everything?
Everything, no matter how bad or how good you perceive it to be has an opposite side. It's only a question of whether you're willing to allow yourself to see it or not.
We aren't changing the problem. We're changing our perception of the problem.
Can you learn to see it differently?
Love to all.
Della
#balance #perception #scale #neutrals #goodandbad #rightandwrong #karma #focus #selfmastery #healing #spirituality