This is one of the benefits of not going to the cinema: there are so many surprises.
Sometimes it’s good to forego certain pleasures in order to be all the more surprised.
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Tranquillity is a step on the path toward stupidity.
Thinking is exciting and constantly confronts the thinker with questions and news. No chance to rest. Especially as calming down instills sleep, ignores questions and refuses to engage in questions.
But, one does not even need to get upset in … Weiterlesen
Moral gravity makes us fall towards the heights.
Newton would likely have punished this woman with his contempt. Still, her fine sense for the possibilities and the power of thinking – which is not subject to gravity anyway – instills both courage and hope.
‘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
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
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
Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights […] these rights are freedom, property, security, and especially resistance to oppression.
It did not help this revolutionary, feminist and writer that she lived in the times of the French revolution: she demanded that both slavery and the death penalty be abolished, that a luxury tax be levied to support the poor … Weiterlesen
„Logic is the miserable instrument by which people talk at cross purposes.”
For logic is a homespun system: a system whereby a brick is considered a foundation, such as the word of God, with further bricks indifferently piled on top. The resulting edifice provides security, is easy to live in, and, referred … Weiterlesen
Just as women’s bodies are softer than men’s, so their understanding is sharper.
The fact that, as early as at the end of the14th century, women’s bodies were already considered as being ‘softer’ than those of men may be noteworthy as it was a woman who publicly made this statement at such an … Weiterlesen