Sweet Bites
March 1, 2024
Hi all,
Welcome to another edition of Sweet Bites, Mind Candy’s bite-sized newsletter with thought-provoking finds to send you into the weekend with.
This week we wrapped up our February exploration of reason and rationality with a dive into folly and deception (links below).
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🦉 Wisdom+ (3 Quotes to Ponder)
“Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't--it's human.”
Desiderius Erasmus
Source: Praise of Folly
“Applicants for wisdom
do what I have done:
inquire within.”
Heraclitus
Source: Fragments
“It is a task to see the world as it is.”
Iris Murdoch
Source: Lost in Thought (by Zena Hitz)