Writer Between Worlds

Soulful writing about humans and places

Category: Educație

  • Quote of the day – Die Sünde der Erfolgsgenügsamkeit

    “Der Bau dieses Hauses war aber bei weitem nicht das Schwerste. Viel schwerer war es, die Menschen zu finden. (…) Ich nahm endlich solche Leute, die nicht Schreiner waren, und sich erst hier unterrichten sollten. Aber auch diese hatten, wie die früheren, eine Sünde, welche in Arbeitendenständen und auch wohl in anderen sehr häufig ist:…

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  • Quote of the day

    On strangers and strange ideas: “Arrival of the stranger, concretely presented in mythology, constitutes a “threat to the stability of the kingdom” (…). The stable meaning of experiential events, constrained by the hierarchical structure of group identity, is easily disrupted by the presence of the “other”, who practically poses a concrete threat to the stability…

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  • Feminist Haiku

    Feminist Haiku

    when you cannot choose, so you strive to be chosen: your name is woman.

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  • Election Haiku

    Election Haiku

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

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  • Quote of the day

    “A century ago, the physical environment was for most of humanity that of the natural world, with its rhythms and cycles, its organic, ever-growing and ever-changing interdependent life, a world to which it seemed intuitively obvious that we belong; now it has been replaced for many by an unyielding, inert, confrontational environment of non-living surfaces,…

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  • Quote of the day

    “The romantic movement, in its essence, aimed at liberating human personality from the fetters of social convention and social morality. (…) But egoistic passions, when once let loose, are not easily brought again into subjection to the needs of society. (…) By encouraging a new lawless Ego, it made social cooperation impossible, and left its…

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  • Quote of the day

    “Because existence is always more decisive than words. And it was necessary, and will always remain so, to ask oneself whether this fact in not far more important than writing books or giving lectures: that each of us actualises the content in our own act of being.” Viktor Frankl – Yes to Life in Spite…

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  • Quote of the day

    “The Copernican theory should have been humbling to human pride, but in fact the contrary effect was produced, for the triumphs of science revived human pride.” Bertrand Russel – History of Western Philosophy (The Rise of Science)

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  • Quote of the day

    “Men will always be what women choose to make them. If you wish then that they should be noble and virtuous, let women be taught what greatness of soul and virtue are. “ J.J. Rousseau – Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (1750)

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  • Quote of the day

    “In our day, now that more subtle study and a more refined taste have reduced the art of pleasing to asystem, there prevails in modern manners a servile and deceptive conformity; so that one wouldthink every mind had been cast in the same mould. Politeness requires this thing; decorum that;ceremony has its forms, and fashion…

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  • My daughter wants flip-flops

    Such is the patriarchy. Had God been Goddess for sure there’d have been a ‘Fiat calceamenta!’ in there somewhere, right after ‘Let there be light.’ Somewhere in-between crocodiles & farm animals and lone Adam begging for more cuddle time. ‘Let there be purses and handbags,’ but, above all, ‘let there be shoes,’ in all colors…

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  • Why Write?

    “In my life, writing has been an important exercise to clarify what I believe, what I see, what I care about, what my deepest values are. The process of converting a jumble of thoughts into coherent sentences makes you ask tougher questions.”   Barack Obama, 2012. Writing is healthy. It helps you get to know…

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