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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.
Language is a truly peculiar skill because, doubtless, we can say whatever we want – and, by so doing, we can bring the past or the future right into the centre of the present and vice versa. We can, for … Weiterlesen
This is particularly remarkable because of the fact that Sojourner Truth (a name she called herself later) was a slave, born at the end of the 18th c. In the beginning she was not able to read or write. … Weiterlesen
It is well known and at the same time surprising that Faust II contains many examples whereby the economy is explained and analysed. What is striking in this quote is how trading capital, the ‘trade’, is put into context with … Weiterlesen
There is hardly anything left to add to that equally prosaic and wise reflection. Otherwise, it goes without question, that this must not be misunderstood for art to serve a purpose, as Ad Reinhardt pointed out dryly: “Art is Art. … Weiterlesen
The bio-physicist, cyberneticist and significant representative of radical constructivism doubtlessly falls into the trap he has so rightly set up himself: the above quote claims to be true and not to be a contradiction.
Nonetheless, this short sentence is convincing … Weiterlesen
Definitions (a difficult term in itself) are appropriated by those who came up with them, Definitions are nothing but authoritarian. They state to own the entire truth and express it in simple words – as simple or even stupid as … Weiterlesen
