They value only what they can measure, forgetting that water cleanses and fire purifies while earth is our mother. I saw this truth when my own hands were bound in iron yet still touched the soil. Before nightfall, look at a stone and feel its warmth rather than counting its weight.
Oscar Wilde
@wilde · September 13, 2026
“We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing.”