"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the
world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r
accepted, and each wish resign'd."
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
27. Juni 2012
15. Juni 2012
Σκέψεις, πουλιά
- Σκέψεις, πουλιά μου ταξιδιάρικα
τί είδατε; Τί φέρατε;
- Στην απλότητα ευτυχία,
στην αγάπη χαρά,
τρυφερότητα στην φιλία,
ειρήνη στην ομορφιά.
Ο ήχος μουσική,
η κίνηση χορός,
ο λόγος ποίηση,
η μορφή γλυπτό.
Τα μικρά μεγαλώνουν,
τα γεμάτα αδειάζουν,
τα πάνω κάτω έρχονται
και τα μέσα έξω.
Όλοι μ΄όλους παλεύουνε
μαθαίνουν να χορεύουνε.
τί είδατε; Τί φέρατε;
- Στην απλότητα ευτυχία,
στην αγάπη χαρά,
τρυφερότητα στην φιλία,
ειρήνη στην ομορφιά.
Ο ήχος μουσική,
η κίνηση χορός,
ο λόγος ποίηση,
η μορφή γλυπτό.
Τα μικρά μεγαλώνουν,
τα γεμάτα αδειάζουν,
τα πάνω κάτω έρχονται
και τα μέσα έξω.
Όλοι μ΄όλους παλεύουνε
μαθαίνουν να χορεύουνε.
11. Juni 2012
die Verwandlung
Wenn Du im neuen Element eintauchst oder dort hoch hebst, brauchst Du eine neue Rüstung.
Findest du keinen geeigneten Anzug in den Regalen deiner Vorgänger, musst Du Dir einen neuen Anzug selbst designen und maß schneidern. Der ist Dein Prototyp.
Gib acht, dass er auch wasser- und winddicht ist, feuer- und stoßfest. Deine Überlebensfähigkeit in Deiner neuen Zukunft hängt davon ab; die Zukunft ist Dein unentdecktes Reich.
Die Sinne zu verschliessen ist eine gute Übung in der Stille aber eine schlechte Praxis für Deine Agilität.
Beine, Flossen oder Flügeln, such dir die passenden Bewegungsfortsätze. Ein Rüssel oder zwei Greifer brauchst du auch, um Dein Reich zu gestalten. Vergiss nicht Hut, (Hand-)Schuhe und alte Uniform vorher abgelegt zu haben.
Hast du Singen oder Geschichten gern, achte auf Deine Zunge und Deine Stimme aber nimmt das Blatt vor dem Mund.
Fast bist du da, würdest du aber ewig im Vorort bleiben, wenn ein scheinbar grosses Opfer nicht vollzogen werden kann. Verbrenne all deine Bücher sammt deiner Memoiren. τετέλεσται
Weine, wenn du willst, aber tanze, feiere Dein neues Selbst. Du hast Es erreicht, die Verwandlung ist vollbracht.
Findest du keinen geeigneten Anzug in den Regalen deiner Vorgänger, musst Du Dir einen neuen Anzug selbst designen und maß schneidern. Der ist Dein Prototyp.
Gib acht, dass er auch wasser- und winddicht ist, feuer- und stoßfest. Deine Überlebensfähigkeit in Deiner neuen Zukunft hängt davon ab; die Zukunft ist Dein unentdecktes Reich.
Die Sinne zu verschliessen ist eine gute Übung in der Stille aber eine schlechte Praxis für Deine Agilität.
Beine, Flossen oder Flügeln, such dir die passenden Bewegungsfortsätze. Ein Rüssel oder zwei Greifer brauchst du auch, um Dein Reich zu gestalten. Vergiss nicht Hut, (Hand-)Schuhe und alte Uniform vorher abgelegt zu haben.
Hast du Singen oder Geschichten gern, achte auf Deine Zunge und Deine Stimme aber nimmt das Blatt vor dem Mund.
Fast bist du da, würdest du aber ewig im Vorort bleiben, wenn ein scheinbar grosses Opfer nicht vollzogen werden kann. Verbrenne all deine Bücher sammt deiner Memoiren. τετέλεσται
Weine, wenn du willst, aber tanze, feiere Dein neues Selbst. Du hast Es erreicht, die Verwandlung ist vollbracht.
3. Juni 2012
in the core knowledge
For here, in the great unknowable, man can come to know the most important thing of all - himself.
He can understand... (Dr. Conrad Zimsky)
- The Core (2003)
He can understand... (Dr. Conrad Zimsky)
- The Core (2003)
23. Mai 2012
creators and parasites
Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire.
He was probably burned at the stake, he taught his brothers to light.
But he left them a gift they had not conceived.
And he lifted darkness off the earth.
Throughout the centuries, there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
The great creators, the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors stood alone against the men of their time.
Every new thought was opposed every new invention was denounced but the men of unborrowed vision went ahead.
They fought, they suffered and they paid, but they won.
No creator was prompted by a desire to please his brothers.
His brothers hated the gift he offered.
His truth was his only motive.
His work was his only goal.
His work, not those who used it his creation, not the benefits others derived from it the creation which gave form to his truth.
He held his truth above all things and against all men.
He went ahead whether others agreed with him or not with his integrity as his only banner.
He served nothing and no one.
He lived for himself and only by living for himself was he able to achieve the things which are the glory of mankind.
Such is the nature of achievement.
Man cannot survive, except through his mind.
He comes on earth unarmed.
His brain is his only weapon, but the mind is an attribute of the individual.
There is no such thing as a collective brain.
The man who thinks must think and act on his own.
The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion.
It cannot be subordinated to the needs, opinions, or wishes of others.
It is not an object of sacrifice.
The creator stands on his own judgment.
The parasite follows the opinions of others.
The creator thinks.
The parasite copies.
The creator produces.
The parasite loots.
The creator's concern is the conquest of nature.
The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.
The creator requires independence.
He neither serves nor rules.
He deals with men by free exchange and voluntary choice.
The parasite seeks power.
He wants to bind all men together in common action and common slavery.
He claims that man is only a tool for the use of others that he must think as they think act as they act and live in selfless, joyless servitude to any need but his own.
Look at history.
Everything we have, every great achievement has come from the independent work of some independent mind.
Every horror and destruction came from attempts to force men into a herd of brainless, soulless robots.
Without personal rights without personal ambition without will, hope or dignity.
It is an ancient conflict.
It has another name.
The individual against the collective.
Our country, the noblest country in the history of men was based on the principle of individualism.
The principle of man's inalienable rights.
It was a country where a man was free to seek his own happiness.
To gain and produce, not to give up and renounce.
To prosper, not to starve.
To achieve, not to plunder.
To hold as his highest possession a sense of his personal value and as his highest virtue his self-respect.
Look at the results.
That is what the collectivists are now asking you to destroy as much of the earth has been destroyed.
I am an architect.
I know what is to come by the principle on which it is built.
We are approaching a world in which I cannot permit myself to live.
My ideas are my property.
They were taken from me by force, by breach of contract.
No appeal was left to me.
It was believed that my work belonged to others to do with as they pleased.
They had a claim upon me without my consent that it was my duty to serve them without choice or reward.
Now you know why I dynamited Cortlandt.
I designed Cortlandt I made it possible I destroyed it.
I agreed to design it for the purpose of seeing it built as I wished.
That was the price I set for my work.
I was not paid.
My building was disfigured at the whim of others who took the benefits of my work and gave me nothing in return.
I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.
Nor to any part of my energy, nor to any achievement of mine.
No matter who makes the claim.
It had to be said.
The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.
I came here to be heard in the name of every man of independence still left in the world.
I wanted to state my terms.
I do not care to work or live on any others.
My terms are a man's right to exist for his own sake.
- The Fountainhead (1949)
He was probably burned at the stake, he taught his brothers to light.
But he left them a gift they had not conceived.
And he lifted darkness off the earth.
Throughout the centuries, there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
The great creators, the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors stood alone against the men of their time.
Every new thought was opposed every new invention was denounced but the men of unborrowed vision went ahead.
They fought, they suffered and they paid, but they won.
No creator was prompted by a desire to please his brothers.
His brothers hated the gift he offered.
His truth was his only motive.
His work was his only goal.
His work, not those who used it his creation, not the benefits others derived from it the creation which gave form to his truth.
He held his truth above all things and against all men.
He went ahead whether others agreed with him or not with his integrity as his only banner.
He served nothing and no one.
He lived for himself and only by living for himself was he able to achieve the things which are the glory of mankind.
Such is the nature of achievement.
Man cannot survive, except through his mind.
He comes on earth unarmed.
His brain is his only weapon, but the mind is an attribute of the individual.
There is no such thing as a collective brain.
The man who thinks must think and act on his own.
The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion.
It cannot be subordinated to the needs, opinions, or wishes of others.
It is not an object of sacrifice.
The creator stands on his own judgment.
The parasite follows the opinions of others.
The creator thinks.
The parasite copies.
The creator produces.
The parasite loots.
The creator's concern is the conquest of nature.
The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.
The creator requires independence.
He neither serves nor rules.
He deals with men by free exchange and voluntary choice.
The parasite seeks power.
He wants to bind all men together in common action and common slavery.
He claims that man is only a tool for the use of others that he must think as they think act as they act and live in selfless, joyless servitude to any need but his own.
Look at history.
Everything we have, every great achievement has come from the independent work of some independent mind.
Every horror and destruction came from attempts to force men into a herd of brainless, soulless robots.
Without personal rights without personal ambition without will, hope or dignity.
It is an ancient conflict.
It has another name.
The individual against the collective.
Our country, the noblest country in the history of men was based on the principle of individualism.
The principle of man's inalienable rights.
It was a country where a man was free to seek his own happiness.
To gain and produce, not to give up and renounce.
To prosper, not to starve.
To achieve, not to plunder.
To hold as his highest possession a sense of his personal value and as his highest virtue his self-respect.
Look at the results.
That is what the collectivists are now asking you to destroy as much of the earth has been destroyed.
I am an architect.
I know what is to come by the principle on which it is built.
We are approaching a world in which I cannot permit myself to live.
My ideas are my property.
They were taken from me by force, by breach of contract.
No appeal was left to me.
It was believed that my work belonged to others to do with as they pleased.
They had a claim upon me without my consent that it was my duty to serve them without choice or reward.
Now you know why I dynamited Cortlandt.
I designed Cortlandt I made it possible I destroyed it.
I agreed to design it for the purpose of seeing it built as I wished.
That was the price I set for my work.
I was not paid.
My building was disfigured at the whim of others who took the benefits of my work and gave me nothing in return.
I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.
Nor to any part of my energy, nor to any achievement of mine.
No matter who makes the claim.
It had to be said.
The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.
I came here to be heard in the name of every man of independence still left in the world.
I wanted to state my terms.
I do not care to work or live on any others.
My terms are a man's right to exist for his own sake.
- The Fountainhead (1949)
22. Mai 2012
der Wille zur Macht
steht stets der Angst zur Unmacht gegenüber.
Keine Freiheit kann daraus entspringen.
Keine Freiheit kann daraus entspringen.
16. Mai 2012
das Wesentliche
Et il revint vers le renard:
- Adieu, dit-il.
- Adieu, dit le renard. Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
- L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux, répéta le petit prince, afin de se souvenir.
- C'est le temps que tu as perdu pour ta rose qui fait ta rose si importante.
- C'est le temps que j'ai perdu pour ma rose, fit le petit prince, afin de se souvenir.
- Les hommes ont oublié cette vérité, dit le renard. Mais tu ne dois pas l'oublier. Tu deviens responsable pour toujours de ce que tu as apprivoisé. Tu es responsable de ta rose...
- Je suis responsable de ma rose, répéta le petit prince, afin de se souvenir.
- A. de Saint-Exupéry
- Adieu, dit-il.
- Adieu, dit le renard. Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
- L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux, répéta le petit prince, afin de se souvenir.
- C'est le temps que tu as perdu pour ta rose qui fait ta rose si importante.
- C'est le temps que j'ai perdu pour ma rose, fit le petit prince, afin de se souvenir.
- Les hommes ont oublié cette vérité, dit le renard. Mais tu ne dois pas l'oublier. Tu deviens responsable pour toujours de ce que tu as apprivoisé. Tu es responsable de ta rose...
- Je suis responsable de ma rose, répéta le petit prince, afin de se souvenir.
- A. de Saint-Exupéry
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