Writer Between Worlds

Soulful writing about humans and places

Category: Sprache und Kommunikation

  • Quote of the day

    “The words ‘mean’, ‘mind’ and ‘memory’ share common roots, so any account of meaning that does not begin in the raw stuff of human consciousness is off to a poor start. The left hemisphere on its own puts words together using often complex syntax and makes a kind of sense of them. But the real…

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    “Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.” Hermann Hesse – Siddharta (1922)

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    “Die Hysterie ist die unvermeidliche psychopolitische Verfassung durchmediatisierter Populationen. Sie hat sich infolge der nationalstaatlichen Lebensformen überall durchgesezt, wo Menschen es lernen mußten, im Strom medial konstruierter Dauerkommunikationen zu leben und sich auf die rhythmischen Themenwechsel der Zeitgeister einzurichten.” P. Sloterdijk – Nach Gott (S. 311-312)

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  • Citatul zilei – Despre magie

    Citatul zilei – Despre magie

    “Magicianul se ocupă azi de relații publice, de propagandă, de prospectarea pieței, de anchete sociologice, de publicitate, informație, contra-informație și dez-informație, de cenzură, de operațiuni de spionaj și chiar de criptografie, această știință fiind în secolul al XVI-lea o ramură a magiei. (…) Pe nedrept istoricii au tras concluzia dispariției magiei odată cu apariția științei…

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  • Quote of the day

    Quote of the day

    “I believe that it is difficult to kill an idea because ideas are invisible and contagious, and they move fast. I believe that you can set your own ideas against ideas you dislike. That you should be free to argue, explain, clarify, debate, offend, insult, rage, mock, sing, dramatize, and deny. (…) I believe that…

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  • Quotes of the day

    Quotes of the day

    “Words! Words! The Way is beyond language, for in it there is no yesterday no tomorrow no today! “Do not search for the truth; only cease to cherish opinions.” “Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand.” “The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not…

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    Quote of the day

    “The way we use language to describe the Other is a large part of what gives that Other their humanity.” Toward Eternity – Anton Hur

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  • Election Haiku

    Election Haiku

    seduced by fiction, we end up devoured by the dry, bitter truth.

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    “We call intuition the sympathy by which one transports oneself into the inside of an object in order to coincide with what is unique and consequently the inexplicable. (…) Metaphysics is thus the kind of science that pretends to surpass symbols.” Henri Bergson – An Introduction to Metaphysics (1903)

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  • Quote of the day

    “Waitzkin characterizes medicine as an ideological system that “calls” the patient to be an identity that medicine maintains for him; the diagnosis is the most prevalent form of this identity. The ideological work of medicine is to get the patient to accept this diagnostic identity as appropriate and moral. When the patient accepts this identity,…

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    “Modernity is a great contradiction, consisting on the one hand of the unprecedented technological and administrative harnessing of corporeal powers and on the other hand of a plethora of souls in disintegration, the weakened personalities of men and women who are ‘no longer (being) certain of the sources of integrity’.” W. Cristaudo – Religion, Redemption…

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  • Quote of the day

    “The left hemisphere is the speaking hemisphere: the right hemisphere has literally no voice. The attempt to make the implicit explicit radically alters its nature. (…) metaphor and narrative are often required to convey the implicit meanings available to the right hemisphere and in a left-hemisphere-dominated culture, metaphors and narratives are disregarded as myths and…

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