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The path to ruin is NOT paved with good intentions. It is paved with bad execution. #myFirstTweetstorm #aphorism 1/10
The meme about the path to ruin being paved with good intentions is one of the most insidious memes out there. Because it prevents people from acting on their good intentions. Worse, it sometimes convinces them to act on their bad intentions. 2/10
But what's really unfortunate about the meme is that it takes our focus away from what's really lacking: execution.The truth is that reality does not care about your intentions. It cares about your execution. 3/10
The wise, one alone, unwilling and willing to be spoken of only by the name of #Zeus, the name of Life.
- #Heraclitus 113
[Kahn 1979, pp. 267-271]
- #Heraclitus 113
[Kahn 1979, pp. 267-271]
“With deliberate antimony #Heraclitus here presents his positive conception of the divine ... The #aphorism is unusually dense and puzzling, full of conflicting forces mysteriously under control.”
- Kahn, ‘Art and Thought of #Heraclitus,’ 1979, pp. 267
- Kahn, ‘Art and Thought of #Heraclitus,’ 1979, pp. 267
“... for #Heraclitus as for Aeschylus ‘#etymology’ must be taken literally: an ‘etymos #logos’ is a ‘true statement’ hidden in the form of a name ... the name ‘Zēnos’ affirms that the supreme #deity is also a principle of life, like the ‘everliving fire’ ...”
- Kahn 1979 p. 270
- Kahn 1979 p. 270
