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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.
Sounds tremendously plausible and not only proves the equally stupid and ingenious superiority of humans over mice (and all other living creatures), but also of Einstein’s – let’s call it: opportunism or late insight. After all, Einstein himself, together with … Weiterlesen
Perhaps it is sometimes due to the brain itself, which has less work with simple answers than with realistic, because very complex, relationships. As is well known, the brain tends to compare the unknown with the known in order to … Weiterlesen
Let’s start at the beginning: The German word for “living” (in the sense of the domestic environment in which one lives) is Wohnen. It has evolved from the Middle High German Wonne (bliss). Which sounds and appears very nice, because … Weiterlesen
Regardless of how intensely and pleasurably Epicurus advocated the quality of the present, we have to clearly admit that such a present does not really exist. As soon as one utters the word ‘now’, this now and all that it … Weiterlesen
Solitude can only be truly experienced if it is played out in a societal context. As an opposition to (the) other sociable people. On one’s own, without a high-contrast counterpart, there is no contradiction.
With this statement, Leibniz also manifests his own enthusiasm about the fact that he played an essential role in the discovery and development of the digital system: the relationship between 0 and 1 being fundamental for everything. Doubtless, this intelligent … Weiterlesen
If what we call order actually produces permanent chaos, then one can only favour chaos in the hope that it will provide a new, open and meaningful kind of order.
Members of the DADA movement and also Kurt Schwitters already … Weiterlesen
