https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:34:58 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/orwell-george/80417/ https://wist.info/orwell-george/80417/#respond Fri, 21 Nov 2025 16:32:43 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=80417 One of the effects of safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions seem somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude.

George Orwell (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1942-08), “Looking Back on the Spanish War,” ch. 3, New Road (1943-06)
    (Source) ]]> https://wist.info/orwell-george/80417/feed/ 0 80417 https://wist.info/watts-alan/46464/ https://wist.info/watts-alan/46464/#respond Mon, 05 Apr 2021 19:34:37 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=46464 The problem is that the philosopher of today has lost his wonder, because wonder, in modern philosophy, is something you must not have; it is like enthusiasm in eighteenth-century England — it is very bad form.

Alan Watts (1915–1973) Anglo-American philosopher, writer
“The Relevance of Oriental Philosophy” (c. 1964)
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