2. November 2010

juvenile confidence

- I tell you what I've got on my side
- What have you got on your side?
- The confidence of youth

- Cold Mountain (2003)

The dark forest


"And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path."

- Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey

5. Oktober 2010

Tetrapharmakos

«Άφοβον ο θεός, ανύποπτον ο θάνατος και ταγαθόν μεν εύκτητον, το δε δεινόν ευκαρτέρητον»

- Φιλόδημος (επικούρειος), Ηράκλειο, Ιταλίας


Don't fear god, Don't worry about death;
What is good is easy to get, and
What is terrible is easy to endure

- Philodemus, Herculaneum Papyrus, 1005, 4.9-14

Παιδεία / Education

Το γαρ όλον και παν έργον της νομοθεσίας είς την παιδείαν ανήψεν

- Πλούταρχος, Βίος Λυκούργου, 14.1

4. Oktober 2010

Φιλοκαλούμεν γαρ μετ’ ευτελείας και φιλοσοφούμεν άνευ μαλακίας

- ΠΕΡΙΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΕΠΙΤΑΦΙΟΣ, Θουκυδίδης


Wir lieben das Schöne mit Schlichtheit und lieben das Philosophieren ohne Verweichlichung

- Gefallenenrede des Perikles, Thukydides

30. September 2010

dance or get out of the way

- Boss, do you dance?
- Dance? No!
- Then get out of the way...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_cqxUY5oyo


- Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it:
you've got everything except one thing,
madness. A man needs a little madness or else ...
- or else?
- he never dares cut the rope.
...

- Teach me to dance! Will you?
- Dance? Did you say dance?
- Come on my boy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=690_48tCzfE

23. September 2010

empty boat

If a man is crossing a river and an empty boat collides with his own skiff,
even though he be a bad-tempered man he will not become very angry.
But if he sees a man in the boat, he will shout at him to steer clear.
If the shout is not heard, he will shout again, and yet again, and begin cursing.
And all because there is somebody in the boat.
Yet if the boat were empty, he would not be shouting, and not angry.

If you can empty your own boat crossing the river of the world,
no one will oppose you, no one will seek to harm you...

- Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu (1965)
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