“The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.” PeopleReasonAgeLyingPurposeAsksHabitAdd Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.” IfsThinkingNeedsKindMeanStoriesSchoolCoursesMistakeEducationStudySeeingConditionsDutyHabitEasierHolyFoundationStructureWingsAddEducationalGravesCuriousEnjoymentInquiryCoercion Author:Albert Einstein
“There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act the same follies as their sires. Every vice has reached its zenith.” DesireHabitAddVicesFollyImmoralPosterityDescendantsZenith Author:Juvenal
“The longer men sin, the more easily they can; for every act of transgression weakens conscience, stupefies intellect, hardens hearts, adds force to bad habits, and takes force from good example. And, surely, there is nothing in such associations; as wicked affinities will insure to the sinner in the future state, to incline him to repentance.” MenHeartStatesForceSinExampleHabitConscienceAddIntellectWickedSinnerRepentanceAssociationBad HabitsAffinityGood ExamplesTransgressionIncline Author:Edward Thomson
“It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.” IfsStoriesEducationLearningHabitHumorousFoundationStructureWingsAddEducational Author:Albert Einstein