Why You Should Tilt at Windmills (and Other Quixotic Reflections) (excerpt)
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Why You Should Tilt at Windmills (and Other Quixotic Reflections) (excerpt)
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Margaret Atwood • The Robber Bride
Anyone wanting to change the world needs to cultivate a mix of rationality and intuition, as well as a mix of arrogance and humility: the arrogance to believe that they may be able to alter the course of human history, but also the humility to observe and change their views.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
“The driving cultural force of that form of life we call ‘modern,’” Rosa writes, “is the idea, the hope and the desire, that we can make the modern world controllable.” “Yet,” he quickly adds, “it is only in encountering the uncontrollable that we really experience the world. Only then do we feel touched, moved, alive. A world that is fully known, ... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • The Paradox of Control
“If you do not know to which port you are sailing, then no wind is favorable.”
Matthew Van Natta • The Beginner's Guide to Stoicism: Tools for Emotional Resilience and Positivity
How changing the metaphors we use can change the way we think | Aeon Essays
Benjamin Santos Gentaaeon.co
even when we act with what we believe to be the best of intentions, our efforts are often at cross-purposes with our goals. That’s the conundrum.