The Wisdom

Forty-six lines, each with its thinker, its tradition and why it still matters. Every one is printed on a T.

All 46 lines, with the thinking behind them, in one booklet. Have a look inside

  1. 01   "Keep the pain awake"
    Martin Buber
  2. 02   "Truth happens to an idea"
    William James
  3. 03   "Feel more, Hurt Less"
    T4THNK
  4. 04   "Philosopher for hire"
    T4THNK
  5. 05   "Dasein"
    Martin Heidegger
  6. 06   "The ‘I am’ is the way"
    In the spirit of Nisargadatta Maharaj & Ramana Maharshi
  7. 07   "Ô mon corps, fais de moi toujours un homme qui interroge !"
    Frantz Fanon
  8. 08   "A label is an act of violence"
    Inspired by Eckhart Tolle
  9. 09   "Brevity is beautiful"
    T4THNK
  10. 10   "Beware the barrenness of a busy life"
    Socrates
  11. 11   "What is it like to be a bat?"
    Thomas Nagel
  12. 12   "Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art"
    Ray Bradbury
  13. 13   "Leisure is the mother of philosophy"
    Thomas Hobbes
  14. 14   "Better a Buddha than a Buddhist"
    Inspired by Osho
  15. 15   "Hurt people, hurt people"
    Popular saying
  16. 16   "No self, no problem"
    Popular Buddhist saying
  17. 17   "Slang is metaphor. Metaphor is poetry"
    G. K. Chesterton
  18. 18   "Condemned to be free"
    Jean-Paul Sartre
  19. 19   "I have found the middle way"
    The Buddha (Siddhārtha Gautama)
  20. 20   "I am a Strange Loop"
    Douglas Hofstadter
  21. 21   "Until philosophers are kings"
    Plato
  22. 22   "Are you a blind man on the right road?"
    Plato
  23. 23   "Thought is action in rehearsal"
    Sigmund Freud
  24. 24   "Minds are what brains do"
    Marvin Minsky
  25. 25   "Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder"
    Plato
  26. 26   "Pain is certain, suffering is optional"
    Commonly attributed to the Buddha
  27. 27   "Si Aristóteles hubiera guisado, mucho más hubiera escrito"
    Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
  28. 28   "The most common form of despair is not being who you are"
    Søren Kierkegaard
  29. 29   "The idea of art kills creativity"
    Douglas Adams
  30. 30   "Titles are prisons of human potential"
    Natasha Tsakos
  31. 31   "The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it"
    Voltaire
  32. 32   "So it goes"
    Kurt Vonnegut
  33. 33   "Are you as beautiful as you look?"
    Inspired by Plato
  34. 34   "Descartes is dead"
    T4THNK, inspired by Nietzsche and Ken Wilber
  35. 35   "Umntu ngumntu ngabantu"
    Traditional isiXhosa proverb
  36. 36   "If you find a good wife, you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher"
    Socrates
  37. 37   "There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom"
    Friedrich Nietzsche
  38. 38   "Good. True. Beautiful."
    Rooted in Plato, popularised by Ken Wilber
  39. 39   "L’existence précède l’essence"
    Jean-Paul Sartre
  40. 40   "On ne naît pas femme : on le devient"
    Simone de Beauvoir
  41. 41   "Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity"
    Simone Weil
  42. 42   "All doing is knowing, and all knowing is doing"
    Humberto Maturana & Francisco Varela
  43. 43   "Where there is life there is mind"
    Evan Thompson
  44. 44   "Attention is a moral act"
    Iain McGilchrist
  45. 45   "Vivimos en mundos interpretativos"
    Rafael Echeverría
  46. 46   "純粋経験 / Pure experience"
    Nishida Kitarō