Author: be_DESIGN
‘Sense’ is this wonderful word which is used in two opposite meanings. On the one hand it means the organ of immediate apprehension, but on the other hand we mean by it the sense, the significance, the thought, the universal underlying the thing. And so sense is connected on the one hand with the immediate external aspect of existence, and on the other hand with its inner essence.
It was not by chance within the context of his treatment on Aesthetics that Hegel (or perhaps rather his former student Heinrich Gustav Hotho who, after Hegel’s death, reworked these Lectures on Fine Art for print from incomplete manuscripts and … Weiterlesen
Fail again. Fail better.
Conscious failure engenders learning processes, in other words: the attempt to think, act and become smarter. Hence one has to consider failure as a quality and not as defeat – which, psychologically, is not easy to do. Success has a … Weiterlesen
teach = cheat
Self-Realisation
Two follies do not add up to wisdom. The first, and at best dreamy, daftness is the belief in a self. As if such a thing existed, as if one could find it somewhere. This is pure fiction because no … Weiterlesen
Women’s Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger’d.
A very dangerous weapon: a sword whose blade is sharpened on both sides can cut or penetrate bodies easily and instantly at the slightest contact. This type of sword is also known from the Christian and Islamic religions. Besides being … Weiterlesen
resist = sister
Knowledge
Some people believe that they know something and that they can store this as knowledge. But, this is an illusion and simply follows some kind of search combined with the hope to possess what has been found. This becomes very … Weiterlesen
Humans have learned only through mistakes.
The industrious designer, architect, engineer, physicist and theorist Buckminster Fuller could base this statement on an abundance of empirical material because many inventions and a considerable number of smart projects in design and architecture and also pioneering theories and ideas … Weiterlesen