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I just wanna share this quote · 9:37pm Nov 29th, 2021
All our learned teachers and educators are agreed that children do not know why they want what they want; but no one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod. And yet it seems palpably clear to me.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
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Daedalus Aegle · 243 views
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Amen🙏
Self-awareness is a vital and far too rare tool. Carrot (cake) and stick work for all ages, and anyone who claims otherwise is either lying to themselves or allergic.
Sounds like something Albert Einstein would have read on his journey to becoming the main source of quotes on the equivalence of being a genius and a kid playing with toys.
Goethe’s cutie mark should be a piece of cake.
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Sometimes the classics deserve it.
As adults the only difference is that our cakes and biscuits (and rods) become several orders of magnitude more expensive.