It's one thing to feel that you are on the right #path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path

@PauloCoelho

The #bud has opened and the fresh leaves fan out and curve back with a gesture which is unmistakably communicative

#AlanWatts

How can I post/write to snort.social?

Everything I post here on iris.to shows up on snort.social. I see my account, profile, settings, etc.

Something changed recently, and I cannot see a way for me to post directly in my snort.social instance.

What am I missing?

The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my #ignorance is just as good as your knowledge"

#IsaacAsimov

In the long run, a hierarchical #society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance

#GeorgeOrwell

_1984_

This work was strictly #voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half

#GeorgeOrwell

From the ashes a fire shall be #woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king

#JRRTolkien

#Wisdom is not necessarily flashy or powerful - it can manifest in the most ordinary-seeming of lives

@JackKornfield

#Knowledge is important but much more important is the use to which it is put

@DalaiLama

And time yet for a hundred #indecisions, And a hundred visions and revisions

#TSEliot

Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a #joy you must have somebody to divide it with

#MarkTwain

The limits of my #language mean the limits of my world

#LudwigWittgenstein

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who #laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter

#FriedrichNietzsche

It can never be satisfied, the #mind, never

#WallaceStevens

The question is how does the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) determine that an increase in atmospheric #CO2 causes an increase in global temperature?

#TimBall

Always go too far, because that's where you will find the #truth

#AlbertCamus

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can #bribe the public with the public's money

#AlexisDeTocqueville

I cannot #teach anybody anything, I can only make them think

#Socrates

If we start electing presidents on basis of their sexual #purity, some real monsters will get into the White House

#HunterSThompson

#Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours

#HermannHesse