“If you punish a child for being naughty,
and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward;
and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished,
he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as
he finds advantage to himself.”
— Immanuel Kant
@dzeina Mazais gan jau, ka dzirdējis slaveno stāstu par Sū, kurš dzīvo ceļmallapas kātā. Garāmgājēji vienmēr jautā: "Sū kātā, ja?". Un viņš atbild: "Jā, es vēl aizvien dzīvoju tajā pašā kātā!".
@IlzeMeistere Jau kopš mazotnes rūķi Figo sauca par Pūķi, jo viņa elpa radīja liesmas pēc jebkura cepta ēdiena. Pūķis neļaunojās, ka visi aizmirsuši viņa īsto vārdu. Toties visiem palika nelabi, kad uzzināja, ko Pūķis izdarīja antikvariātā. Bija skaista diena, un Pūķis tikko bija apēdis vistu.
my life changed the moment an old mentor told me this:
“stopping your worst habit would change your life way faster than starting your best habit…
fix the leak before filling the bucket.”
Attack on Titan (2013–2023) earns that claim by constantly raising its own ceiling, starting as survival horror and unfolding into something far larger, where every reveal reframes everything that came before it.
This paragraph from Carl Jung hits so hard.
“The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them, but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities. The artist who never makes art becomes cynical about those who do. The lover who never risks loving mocks romance. The thinker who never commits to a philosophy sneers at belief itself. And yet, all of them suffer, because deep down they know: the life they mock is the life they were meant to live.”