sententia

Latin noun that means a way of thinking, opinion, judgment, or sentence, and by extension a thought, meaning, or maxim/aphorism

Look Deep Into Nature

Before critiquing the world, have a walk through nature. Calm yourself and watch the world as it stares back at you. The animals are more wise than we give them credit for.

Stare less at the algorithm that torments your soul and slow yourself down, as you remind yourself of a simpler time in your life. The happiest people in the world are the ones who worry less about what is out of their control and more with what is.

“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.” – Mark Twain

“Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be just like him.” – Proverbs 26:4

Live to Live

If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life. I feel is true, but a dream in the world of realism. Do what you can at the best of your ability. Most live in fear of the unknown, at the risk of losing the opportunity of experience. But why live if you don’t live?

“Yes, if you’re not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot do.” – Lao Tzu

“It is not death that a man should fear, but rather he should fear never beginning to live.” – Marcus Aurelius

“Feel the fear and do it anyway.” – Susan Jeffers

Thought Police

aka (lol) the destruction of the meaning of words

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” – George Orwell.

“In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.” – Syme, explaining Newspeak in Nineteen Eighty‑Four.

“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.” – Nineteen Eighty‑Four (on shrinking language to shrink thought)

Think for yourself, while you can.

Freedom of Expression

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” – Evelyn Beatrice Hall, summing up Voltaire’s attitude 

“There ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered.” – John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859).

“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.” – John Milton, Areopagitica (1644).

“If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought — not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought we hate.” – Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (U.S. Supreme Court).

“First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected … because speech is the beginning of thought.” – Justice Anthony Kennedy, Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition.