“An empirical philosophy is in any case a kind of intellectual disrobing. We cannot permanently divest ourselves of the intellectual habits we take on and wear when we assimilate the culture of our own time and place. But intelligent furthering of culture demands that we take some of them off, that we inspect them critically to see what they are made of and what wearing them does to us. We cannot achieve recovery of primitive naïveté. But there is attainable a cultivated naïveté of eye, ear and thought.” KindDoeMadePhilosophyEyeCultureCasesAchieveHabitDemandIntellectualEarsIntelligentRecoveryPrimitiveVets Book:The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 1: 1925, Experience and Nature Source: The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 1: 1925, Experience and Nature
“Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.” IfsFreedomHabitCatholicRecoveryBad HabitsGood HabitsHippoDaily Habits Author:Saint Augustine
“If a hundred or a thousand people, all of the same age, of the same constitution and habits, were suddenly seized by the same illness, and one half of them were to place themselves under the care of doctors, such as they are in our time, whilst the other half entrusted themselves to Nature and to their own discretion, I have not the slightest doubt that there would be more cases of death amongst the former, and more cases of recovery among the latter.” PeopleIfsWould BeCareAgeHalfCasesDoubtHabitThousandHundredDoctorsConstitutionIllnessRecoveryFormerOur TimeLatterDiscretionOther HalfOne Half Author:Petrarch
“Economies and societies invariably remake themselves in the wake of a crisis. It's a necessary component of rebound and recovery. Outmoded industries and tired consumption habits make way for new goods and services, new careers and forms of employment, and population realigns itself in the landscape. All these developments are connected to lifestyle changes.” EconomyHabitCrisisTiredLifestyleRecoveryReboundNew Car Author:Richard Florida
“Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom.” StillsBodyLyingGivenConditionsFlowerHabitAddictionAlcoholRecoveryDesertAddictDrug AddictionDormantAddiction RecoveryDrug Addiction RecoveryOvercoming Addiction Book:Oryx And Crake Source: Oryx And Crake