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Quotes
In this sections, we publish and look for innovative, inspiring and insightful quotes from all fields and times – again with short explanations.
We are happy to accept ideas and examples with short explanations and the author’s/contributor’s name. After editorial review, we may then publish them. Please send your contributions to: info@be-design.info
Stupid words and stupid sayings
Peculiar misunderstandings and, at times, terrible fashions have sneaked into our language, and, in so doing, determine our thoughts without us being really aware of it. The words are simply used, used up, as if they wouldn’t constitute a problem – but, thinking is very much rooted in discourse, and this discourse predominantly takes place in the form of language. This is why we need to think about these stupidities and buzzwords and why they should be published together with short reflections.
We are happy to accept ideas and examples with short explanations and the author’s/contributor’s name. After editorial review, we may then publish them. Please send your contributions to: info@be-design.info
Anagrams
Anagrams (originally from Greek ἀναγράφειν anagráphein = rewrite) are words formed by rearranging the letters of a different word. Surprisingly often, anagrams are like a mirror – or distorting mirror – in relation to the source word; sometimes as a paradox, other times as enlightenment. There is obviously something the old and the newly formed words have in common. Anagrams are a source of linguistic imagination, they engender associations and they are simply a great type of game.
A romantic statement that, however, addresses something we probably all know: you should, and you desire to, take action – and then action becomes frustration because it is helpless, unsuccessful or too careless. And yet, so many hopes and desires … Weiterlesen
On the one hand it sounds self-confident, but on the other hand it demonstrates how difficult it is for women to receive obvious recognition for excellent performance. Especially when this is said by a scientist who was awarded the Nobel … Weiterlesen
This is not all that pessimistic a perspective for one’s own life, but it is simultaneously a critique of all that naïve chatter that claims to be realistic and true.
Reading this sentence, it is not clear whether Emmy Noether resigned herself to this statement, or whether she made it proudly, or simply pragmatically (as an insight into ignorant reality). But beyond that: How do we interpret this remark, regardless … Weiterlesen
Sounds paradoxical and also plays with this paradox, but is indeed very pragmatic and insightful: in the face of the total abstraction of the real, or of that we think is real, only that which, within the existing, appears to … Weiterlesen
Simple usually sounds so simple, but a simple life can be more complicated and unsatisfying than a stressful, perhaps even exhausting, but fulfilling life. An empty life, on the other hand, is boring at best, but more likely it is … Weiterlesen
Two young adults are standing in a tram and one says to the other: “And then I was dead.” Obviously, he lacked the experience to realise that, as a corpse, he would not be able to say that.
However, such … Weiterlesen
Even before not only science, but almost the entire world, knows that plants are more than just natural beauty and human food, the Nobel Prize-winning biologist granted them something like emotions. We cannot understand why people consider animal welfare to … Weiterlesen
This is a so-called palindrome, a term that designates a word or a sentence that can be read in both directions, like, for example, Otto or Anna. The presumably longest German word of this kind was discovered by the philosopher … Weiterlesen
The first sentence of the wonderful Ada Lovelace seems disappointingly positivistic; but is immediately counteracted by the second one. For it is not about the obvious, the mere appearance, but about the communication between things, and this is anything but … Weiterlesen
