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be//log consists of three sections:
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.
“Spectacle of the mundane”
This perception is missing in everyday discourse and even more so in the academic one. People are always looking for the extraordinary – but, at best, this is only good enough for small talk or will be misleading because the … Weiterlesen
heat – hate
If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.
Is it a cautious or, on the contrary, particularly happy phrasing? In favor of the first assessment is the fact that anticipation may generate certainty, but the true redemption of happiness is not yet guaranteed. And thus it remains with … Weiterlesen
shoe – hose
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
A representative of German romanticism, Novalis criticizes the Enlightenment by classifying its rationalism as hurtful and juxtaposing reason with art, with aesthetics. An art form made of words, but of other words than those spelled out by reason that thinks … Weiterlesen
right – girth
Each epoch has its attitude, its gaze and its smile.
A precise critique of the peculiarly unhistorical way of thinking exhibited by many historians and other scientists.
We can easily see that each epoch developed (develops) its specific attitudes and fashions, and, what’s more, the respective present defines how we … Weiterlesen
love – vole
“You can do what you will but you cannot will what you will.”
What is questioned here is not action itself, but its background. The will is that which needs reflection and thoughtfulness. Which is why human rights have to consider not the action itself, but the respective intent. The philosopher Hegel called … Weiterlesen